Playboy January 1977

COVER STORY
This month's cover features one of our favorite old stand-bys, the Rabbit collage. The Rabbit, designed and constructed by Bea Donovan, is actually only nine inches tall and the whole set, including couch and picture frames, is done in miniature. In the past, we've featured the Rabbit with only one pair of high-heeled shoes or nylons beside him, implying the unseen presence of but one female. This year, in light of changing times, we've added to that situation somewhat.

3 PLAYBILL
13 DEAR PLAYBOY
19 PLAYBOY AFTER HOURS
22 BOOKS
Vintage thrillers, a blah Houdini biography and a dandy Conan Doyle one reviewed, along with an insightful volume on TV; gift-book ideas.
28 MUSIC
A ride on American Flyer; Shepp-shaped sounds; Ry Cooder interpreted; discs to buy—and give—for the holidays.
33 EXOTICA
How to get pregnant in Afghanistan.
34 MOVIES
Rocky scores a knockout; Lord Olivier, twice; Paddy Chayefsky talks.
40 AGAINST COEDUCATION DOTSON RADER
Our author postulates that coeducation is a failure because the girls are smarter than the boys.
41 THE RIGHT TO ARMS EDWARD ABBEY
Take away a man's weapon and you take away the ultimate form of protest.
43 THE PLAYBOY ADVISOR
47 THE PLAYBOY FORUM
57 PLAYBOY INTERVIEW: ALEX HALEY—candid conversation
The author of Roots tells the fascinating story behind the book.
80 THE MOTEL TAPES—part one of a new book MIKE McGRADY
Conversations overheard in a single motel room over the course of a year that result in funny, sad, sexy stories in dialog form about life in America.
85 NATURAL LEIGH—pictorial
Back in May of 1973, we ran a pictorial called "Indian," featuring Barbara Leigh. Here's a second helping.
94 THE PARTS LEFT OUT OF THE PATTY HEARST TRIAL—article PAUL KRASSNER
The publisher of The Realist, pioneer Yippie and charter member of the It's-Alla-Conspiracy Club, sheds some weird light on the Hearst carnival.
97 THE ELEVENTH-HOUR SANTA—gifts
When you're running out of time, a few helpful hints can save minutes.
101 GREAT COMEBACK LINES—humor JOHN BLUMENTHAL
Fifty zinging retorts delivered by the likes of Dorothy Parker, Mark Twain, Winston Churchill and many others.
103 SPERMULA—pictorial
Scenes from an odd new French porno film.
109 YOU ARE WHAT YOU EST—article DAN GREENBURG
After experiencing it all, our special investigator isn't quite sure what to make of our currently most fashionable mind-bending operation.
189 LITTLE ANNIE FANNY satire . . . HARVEY KURTZMAN and WILL ELDER
224 PLAYBOY POTPOURRI
241 PLAYBOY OINITHE SCENE
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