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...answer is none of the above. The correct response: Shannon Tweed, the November 1981 Playboy centerfold, inviting viewers to join her in Hugh Hefner's new electronic rabbit warren. In partnership with Escapade, a cable programmer that bills itself as an "adult entertainment service," Playboy last month launched the first in a series of one-hour video magazines into 200,000 homes. "The cable market is similar to the opportunities the magazine had in the 1950s," says Hefner. "This is where home entertainment is going. It's a core interest...
Presiding over the White House, Roosevelt came to resemble what his father had been, a Hudson Valley squire. He relished sailing on the Potomac. He enjoyed puttering around in a tweed jacket that he had inherited from his father; he eventually bequeathed it to one of his four sons. He was squirishly indifferent to many of the conventional social graces; his wife even more so. He served martinis mixed with Argentine vermouth. They were, one visitor recalls, "about the color of spar varnish." The President liked wild game and carved it expertly, so admirers regularly sent him venison and antelope...
...audience, although he remains invisible to the other characters. Willy implores the ghost, Willy's older brother. "Ben, what's the secret to success? Did I do something wrong?" James Bohnen plays Ben's phantom with such presence one feels like reaching out and touching his huge tweed overcoat as he roams around the aisles in the audience. He replies repeatedly, "Willy, when I was 17, I went into the jungle. When I was 21, I came out. And damned if I wasn't rich. Diamonds." Willy has repeated this and other formulas to himself throughout his life ever since...
Steve Oney is not a college student. His tweed jacket, Knapsack, pullover sweater and predilection for Bartley burgers (he prefers the "Ronnie Reagan burger," two jellybeans included) may make him look like one; he does attend some half-dozen classes and will continue to do so for the rest of the year. But Steve Oney is a 1981-82 Nieman fellow, a self-styled "new journalist," and his mission at Harvard this year is not to pave the way toward professional school but to take courses "that I don't know anything about." There's one other thing: he wants...
...orphan cub, is taken in and raised by kindly Widow Tweed, whose farm occupies a patch of rural terrain somewhere in the American midcentury. Down the road a pace is the shack of Amos Slade, a grizzled old hunter who keeps a grizzled old hound dog named Chief and a cheerful hound pup, Copper...