Grotesque and distorted extremes tend to pop out just at the end of any era, a good example being the recent rash of hyped-up photographic nudes. The foldout playmate in Playboy Magazine – she of outsized breast and buttocks, pictured in sharp detail – signals the death throes of a departing age. Already, she is beginning to appear quaint, not sexy. She might still be possible for a while in a wide-screen, color movie (another hot medium). But try to imagine her, in that same artificial pose, on the intimate, involving, “cool: television set in your living room…Don’t throw away your Playboy foldouts, however. Sooner than it may seem possible, those playmate-type nudes may become fashionable as collectors’ items, having the same old-timey quality for future generations that cigar store Indians and Victorian cartoons have for us.