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| | The New Yorker : critics : books |
 | | At the end of “The Playmate Book,” we are given the average measurements of the Playmates from the sixties to the present: a modest 35-23-35. |
 | | There was also a “Playmate Data Sheet,” where the woman, in a sort of Catholic-schoolgirl handwriting (which, curiously, was the same from month to month), listed her goals in life, her favorite movies, and so on. |
 | | For “The Playmate Book,” Gretchen Edgren and her staff put a lot of questions to the centerfold alumnae, and the women’s answers, though no doubt edited with care, tell us a lot—above all, that for many of the models the centerfold was simply a career move. |
| www.newyorker.com /critics/books/articles/060320crbo_books (3847 words) |
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