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...raunchy comic relief there is Lavra (Lillian Evans), the self-styled former "playgirl of Moscow" from whom a few generous swigs of vodka can elicit a tipsy ode to the joys of sex. Her opposite number is prim, spartan Iva (Lenore Har ris), a dance-exercise buff who seems to revel in single blessedness until, in a passionate and poignant outburst, she reveals its lonely curse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Texas Detente | 2/6/1978 | See Source »

...views, Schwarzenegger returns, "I never comment about that." Asked whether he prefers the East or the West Coast, he says, "Both. I even like the middle of the country." He admits to being a sex symbol but prefers the cutesy People Magazine road to the raw, provocative poses of Playgirl. He won't even say how much money he earns from his deals. "What does it matter...

Author: By Mike Kendall, | Title: 'I knew I was a winner. I just had it in me.' | 11/3/1977 | See Source »

...took a turn with former Ohio Congressman Wayne Hays because of his power "and because he was the sharpest dresser I ever saw," says Liz Ray, 33, onetime Playgirl of the Potomac. Now that Hays has been retired from power and Liz has become a Thespian of sorts, she has discovered someone new. He is Carl Stohn Jr., 55, a producer for the playhouse in St. Charles. Ill., where Ray is appearing in Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? "I love everything about him," gushes Liz. "He's always directing me and teaching me, like My Fair Lady. I hope...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Happy, Happy, Happy | 11/15/1976 | See Source »

...Israel's small but vocal band of about 400 active feminists is making an issue of local censorship of Playgirl magazine. Steimatzky's Agency, a Tel Aviv-based book and magazine distributor, gave up censoring female nudes in Penthouse a year ago, but it still insists on blacking out the male genitals in copies of Playgirl. Explains Proprietor Yehezkel Steimatzky, 75: "Everybody is used to nude women, but nude men are new on the Israeli market, and I am afraid it would upset the status quo." The feminists have filed a suit demanding an end to Steimatzky...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Sexes: Male and Female | 10/27/1975 | See Source »

Beginning in 1970, a series of personal tragedies began to overshadow Christina's playgirl path. First her maternal aunt, Eugenie Niarchos, wife of Ari's longtime shipping rival, Stavros Niarchos, died from an overdose of sleeping pills. The following year Christina suffered through her own first marriage, divorce and a brief stay at Cedars of Lebanon Hospital in Los Angeles. Rumors of an attempted suicide began to circulate, but were vehemently denied by her family...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: The Multimillion-Dollar Match | 8/4/1975 | See Source »

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