Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory
-Albert Schweitzer
Comrade Pavlik: The Rise and Fall of a Soviet Boy Hero by Catriona Kelly A Little Swine
Art of Living & Literature Across Frontiers: Tough Bunnies
Two academics decide to take a scholarly approach to Playboy's playmate prose
First surprise: Playboy centerfolds are tough, say two social psychologists who did a content analysis of the biographical text that runs with the photographs of Playboy's playmates.
Second surprise: There's text with those centerfold spreads?
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