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Moving from these small black and white photos, one is startled by the large, horizontal, color "centerfold" images which make up makeup Sherman's next series of pieces. Commissioned and then rejected by Vanity Fair, these photos picture the artist crouched on the floor or on a bed in various costumes and wigs. In all the images, her characters express fear, alienation and helplessness. Some accuse Sherman of reinforcing negative female stereotypes, but she resolutely denies the charge. She wants, she says, merely "to make people uncomfortable in their expectations of seeing cleavage...
...veteran firefighter also maintained that he has been the object of overt harassment, receiving an Playgirl centerfold of a nude man, a pamphlet on AIDS and an anti-gay taped on his locker...
...looks and body--35-24-35--of a classic Playboy centerfold. Kathy Shower of Brookville, Ohio, is hardly your typical Playmate, though. For starters, she is 33 and the divorced mother of two. Shower had already done some TV parts before her May Playboy appearance. "I didn't have a name; you've got to get known," explains Shower of her decision to pose nude after a makeup-artist friend submitted some stills of her to the magazine. "I said to my friend that they wouldn't be interested once they learned my age," she recalls. But they were...
...just what is the NRA up to when it attaches a duplicate of an already existing law to a handgun decontrol bill? It seems transparent that the provision in question is there so that our centerfold, Robert Kliesment, can go on about how the NRA is making our streets safe for good honest citizens by locking criminals behind bars. Without this bogus provision, the NRA ad would have been impossible...
Most grandmothers would faint at the very idea of finding a granddaughter in the centerfold pages of Playboy magazine. But when Karen Velez, 24, appeared as last December's Playmate of the Month, Doris Newman, 73, felt only pride. After all, it was Granny Newman who had encouraged Velez to bare her all for the magazine's talent scouts when they showed up in Miami two years ago. "If you showed your ankles or wore lipstick in my day," says Mrs. Newman, "you were a tramp. But today nudity doesn't mean much." Still, it can bring a few "goodies...