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Word: playboy (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Playboy's latest cover girl is heavy-weight boxer Mike Tyson. Meanwhile, prominent sports magazines display scantily-clad women prancing around on tropical shores...

Author: By Steven J.S. Glick, | Title: Swimming Through the Sleaze | 2/7/1989 | See Source »

...problem is these would-be Playboy readers need the respectability of a sports magazine. They cannot admit their real interests to themselves or others. So they weakly maintain that reading, or rather looking at, the February issue is essential to keeping up with the world of sports. Have a good workout...

Author: By Steven J.S. Glick, | Title: Swimming Through the Sleaze | 2/7/1989 | See Source »

MOST ENDANGERED SPECIES The last Playboy Bunnies in the U.S. folded their ears when their warren in Lansing, Mich., closed for lack of business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Most of '88 | 1/2/1989 | See Source »

...said it was his duty not to exempt anyone from the law. In this case, justice may be tempered with mercy. "I could not hold back my tears," said Justice Minister Akram Abdul-Qader Ali, who named a committee to investigate the killing. Odai has enjoyed a playboy reputation, and is rumored to have acted violently on occasion. He held prominent public posts, but his ostentatious life-style contrasted sharply with his father's calls for sacrifice during the gulf war. In the conspiratorial world of Baghdad politics, it was impossible to know all the reasons for Odai's predicament...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Iraq Sins of The Son | 12/5/1988 | See Source »

...adviser Stu Spencer to keep Dole under control. But Spencer proved too domineering for Quayle. He called him Danny and treated him like a college freshman. At Quayle's first press conference, the Bush staff was relieved at his ability to handle the issue of Paula Parkinson, the onetime Playboy model who very briefly shared a Florida vacation house with Quayle and two colleagues, but they were not prepared for the brouhaha over Quayle's decision to join the National Guard. Nor did anyone coach Quayle through the television interviews that night; he came across as woefully inadequate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nine Key Moments : 1988 Campaign | 11/21/1988 | See Source »

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