Word: playboy
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...framed Playboy magazine covers will come down, the mauve walls will surely be repainted, and the scanty outfits and cottontails donned by twelve Bunnies will be packed away for good. On July 31 the last Playboy Club in the U.S. will close its doors. Officials at the Hilton Inn in Lansing, Mich., which houses the hutch, have announced they will dismantle the operation that once employed 45 Bunnies and on one Valentine's Day attracted a crowd of 200 to watch a performance by another anachronism, Tiny Tim. It was the last of five franchises that sprang up in Midwestern...
Some of the best and most interesting theater on campus came from outside the College. A troupe of Irish university student actors began their American tour by treating Harvard audiences to strong, unorthodox performances of four plays by modern Irish dramatists, including J.M. Synge's The Playboy of the Western World and Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot...
...game hitting streak, the ten-year hurdle of Edwin Moses, even (perversely) the 41 consecutive losses of the Columbia University football team are considered gold stars. Regarding Brooklyn First Baseman Gil Hodges' hitless World Series of 1952, the New York Times puzzled, "If he were a drinker or a playboy, it would be understandable. But he's a fine, clean-living paragon of good behavior." When the slump carried over into the next season, Hodges became the particular project of several orders of nuns...
This election, however, there is every reason to think this voting bloc is up for grabs. Evangelical territory isn't necessarily a Republican bastion--born-again Jimmy Carter carried it handily in 1976 (despite his interview with Playboy Magazine and his pro-choice, pro-ERA platform). And Michael Dukakis should carry it, too--especially if he intends to make headway in the South...
...divine that sex was the apple that lured Jimmy Swaggart from his cushy Eden atop the garbage heap of televangelists. After all, Swaggart not only called his fellow philanderer Jim Bakker a cancer, but he also led the battle to coerce convenience stores into removing Playboy and Penthouse from their shelves...