Word: stuffs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...from real physical contact with real and complicated people. Playboy is first and foremost a magazine of unattainable fantasy objects. Its pictorials offer a world of anatomically perfect and nearly interchangeable surfaces. Mere flat images on a page. Such fantasies, of such predictable and derivative stereotypes, are pretty meager stuff for nurturing real intimacy and affection. The models' poses--depicting their subordination and submissiveness--offer little grounds for respecting women as equals and counterparts...
...filled out the application forms: address, social security number, waist measurement; academic major, minor, bust measurement; hobbies, activities, cup size; special achievements, college affiliation, hip measurement. I decided to include my school address, on the theory that once he had my name, he could get that stuff anyway, but I left out my home address. Under "special achievements," I wrote "aerobics instructor, dancer," figuring those were my only achievements that would be of interest to Playboy. For some reason, they didn't ask for SATs...
When Walker shows up, the pretty production assistant who has been assigned to keep him and his bad influence away from Lu Anne complains about the surrounding dullness: "This is all very tame stuff, if you ask me. Outside of the usual drunks. It's so tranquil and businesslike it's almost boring." Walker remarks, "That could change overnight." But before he sets his catastrophe in motion, Stone displays an intriguing cast of behind-the-screen characters. The director, Walter Drogue Jr., is the son of another director, "a man from the mists of legend, a contemporary of Walsh...
...charismatic front man. His piano playing, though inimitable, was hardly virtuoso stuff. But William ("Count") Basie had one supreme gift: he knew how to meld a dozen or more idiosyncratic instrumentalists into a single, pulsing organism with a voice of its own, which was always somehow his voice. The bluesy, stomping bands he led from the mid-1930s until his death in 1984, at age 79, were among the best in jazz history. Not that Basie makes any such claims in Good Morning Blues. On the page as in life, he is a modest man, given to understatement...
...tabouli, however, Ehrlich is less ebullient. "I don't touch that stuff. It looks too oily," he says...