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Somente agora o silêncio se fez possível. Holden Caulfield corria de um lugar ao outro na tentativa de impedir que a inocência desaparecesse despenhadeiro a baixo. Mas os campos de centeio sao como grandes dédalos que retira os ponteiros do relógio impedindo que saibamos quando a velhice  já nos redime. Depois do cansaço advindo das tentativas de deter a fuga da juventude, das crianças que brincam descuidadas no campo de centeio, ou do que restou do nosso humanismo arado por rastelos feitos de ossos ressequidos, impunhados por nossos antepassados elliotianos, com seus elmos vazios, cheios de nada. Aí de nós! Agulha no palheiro. Mas isso nao importa. O silêncio que nos intimidou durante décadas mostrou que Salinger nao escrevia para mais ninguém, exceto ele mesmo. Nunca ouve um verdadeiro outsider catequisado pelo fantasma suicida de Seymour. A única resposta para o que viu Seymour naquela tarde praiana antes de sua morte, e Caulfield em seu sonho angélico nunca nos será revelado. Silêncio.

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Be sure to visit Skameikin for all your Russian disco and hair band needs....and the album below which is what Farfisa backed by a balalaika sounds like, sort of.

BETTY PAGE AND GORILLA

PINUPS BY ALBERTO VARGAS

This post is just the tip of the iceberg... see reason number 9 on our The Top Ten Reasons To Support The A-HAA for links to more great pinup art.

We're very grateful to archive supporter, Chad Coyle for allowing us to digitize his collection of cartoons and illustrations from 1960s Playboy magazines. You might remember our previous posts on Erich Sokol, Eldon Dedini, Doug Sneyd and Phil Interlandi. Today, we focus on the "Grand Old Man" of pinup art, Alberto Vargas.
Vargas was born in Peru in 1896, and travelled to Europe with his family in 1911. His father was a photographer, and Vargas was exposed at an early age to the airbrush as a retouching tool. He studied to be a photographer, and worked in New York as a retoucher for a time, but Florenz Ziegfeld hired him as an illustrator for his Follies in 1917. He scraped by through the depression illustrating for various publications and movie studios. When George Petty left Esquire in 1940, Vargas took over his position with the magazine. Even though this brought much-needed exposure for Vargas' work, the contract with Esquire was extremely unfair. The magazine even trademarked the name Vargas had been working under... "Varga" and wouldn't allow him to use it for any other work. Vargas sued and broke the contract in 1950.
Vargas added the "s" to his name and proceeded to rebuild his career, illustrating playing cards and taking freelance work for True magazine. In 1960, he was hired as an illustrator for Playboy, the venue that made him famous. The "Vargas Girl" represented a high level of perfection in beauty, erotic- but never vulgar. Even when Playboy would have allowed him to depict full frontal nudity, Vargas always kept his models discretely draped. He worked for Playboy until his 90th birthday in 1976, when he retired. Vargas passed away in 1982 at the age of 96.
Completing this group of postings on the Playboy artists of the 1960s, here is the work of the great Alberto Vargas...