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...curious datedness hangs over Playboy. The props never change-the stereo wailing, the fake gun collection framed in place on the wall, the satin sheets on the bed. One poor swinger who failed to keep up with his status symbols had to have the editor explain to him why there are so few convertibles on the market. Girls are still called chicks, and the cartoons are often 1930s vintage-elderly lechers chasing gamboling nymphs around the old yacht. Playboy fiction often features the best names-Vladimir Nabokov, Graham Greene-though not too often their best work. Playboy interviews, alertly conducted...
Chicago's partner, Abstract Painter Miriam Schapiro, explained that they were trying to dramatize women in real life, "not as the object of male art." Accordingly, the makers of the dream house dressed the front half of a manikin bride in white satin and posed her triumphantly at the head of the staircase. Their tableau extended to the bottom of the stairs, where the rear half of the bride disappeared into the gray woodwork, carrying her dashed dreams with her into oblivion...
...entertainment starts out kind of slow. The Collectors's Items, four girls, two guys, all with the burnt out eyes and faded satin outfits of Las Vegas corines, do a medley of your favorites and a military tap to the tune of 'Over There'. Lanie Kazin, a butterfly in silk, dedicates one to Nixon, she calls it 'Feeling Good.' Feeling what? asks one of the kids, smirking in the back...
Kissinger's one serious temptation is food-the gooier the better. A slight bulge beneath his satin cummerbund testifies to his indulgence. If he accepts many invitations, he also returns them. Though he loves to make stellar appearances at Washington's celebrity-packed Sans Souci restaurant, he often takes friends to dine at a modest Chinese restaurant, where his patronage is proudly noted on the menu. When he goes to Paris, he likes to bring back silk scarves to give to friends. The less visible Kissinger takes delight in his two children (he was divorced from his wife...
Home Dinners. His big production number is a musical setting of the 150th Psalm, which must have been a first for the Copa. Wearing a beaded vest over blue satin shirt, Doc conducts and plays while a thunderous offstage voice intones, "Praise ye the Lord, /Praise him with the sound of the trumpet." Later he reminisces about childhood days in Arlington, Ore. (pop. 686), gives a brief recital on musical spoons, and reveals that his clothes are not hand-me-downs from Liberace's wardrobe, but are often sewed by his wife...