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Familiar Backsides. Though the sex would be considered tame enough by TV audiences in some European countries, it is far more vivid than anything seen on home screens in America. The blonde playgirl in Apt. Six is usually glimpsed half nude, sometimes with nipples showing beneath a see-through blouse. A husband runs his hand under his wife's dress in one episode, and in another, one of the two homosexuals in Apt. Five walks on camera in bikini briefs. Full frontal nudity is out, but both female and male backsides are a familiar sight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Black, White and Blue | 6/5/1972 | See Source »

...designers could insist on manufacturing processes that do not damage the environment. Instead, he charges, their primary aim is to increase sales through wasteful changes in style. They also clutter the market with basically useless products -electrically heated footstools, ballpoint pens crowned with plastic orchids, even a $9.95 inflatable "playgirl" made of "fieshlike vinyl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Down with Designers? | 2/21/1972 | See Source »

...know what to call the lady in question--or else, if they did, they weren't letting it get any further than the inevitable city room locker jokes. In the news columns of the fifties, Liz Renay was variously described as "glamorous," "beauteous," "redhead," or "blonde," as an "acquaintance," "playgirl," "entertainer," or "stripper," as an "acquaintance," "girlfriend," or "date" of gambler Mickey Cohen and gangster Anthony Coppola...

Author: By Gregg J. Kilday, | Title: Liz Renay Shows Her Face | 10/1/1971 | See Source »

Born. To Christine Keeler, 24, cash-and-carry-on playgirl in Britain's 1963 Profumo sex scandal; and James Levermore, 24, a civil engineer: their first child, a son; in London...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jul. 8, 1966 | 7/8/1966 | See Source »

...bitter personal contest-possibly to the political death-between Liberal Prime Minister Lester ("Mike") Pearson, 69, and former Tory Prime Minister John Diefenbaker, 70. If Pearson proves his point that Diefenbaker's onetime Associate Defense Minister jeopardized national security in his relationship with 36-year-old German Playgirl Gerda Munsinger, then Diefenbaker could find himself on the way out as opposition leader. If Pearson does not make his case, he might be the one to go. Last week, after five days of public hearings before Supreme Court Justice Wishart Spence, Diefenbaker was clearly the man on the spot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: Man on the Spot | 5/20/1966 | See Source »

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