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Subject: [PML1] CC: Liv Lindeland
From: Mark Tomlonson
Date: Fri, 05 Dec 2003 10:42:39 -0500

Liv Lindeland's centerfold (January 1971) is probably one of the three 
most famous in Playboy history. There were wisps before 1971, but in 
this centerfold Playboy's editors decided to quit beating around the 
bush (so to speak) and after almost 20 years present full frontal nudity 
in the gatefold.

Liv is the embodiment of why Scandinavians are an erotic archetype. She 
is a knockout. If any woman deserved her status as Playmate, Liv does. 
Someone once pointed out that Liv should be remembered for more than 
flashing America, and this photograph should be remembered for more than 
the amount of explicitness it has.

Liv has been posed in a graceful curve that runs all the way from the 
upper left to mid right to lower left of the photograph. The stained 
glass window pierces the curve like Cupid's arrow. The dark blue pillows 
make certain we don't miss the lovely light skin of Liv. Dark skin's 
great too, of course, but then we wouldn't be talking about Liv.

I've gone back and forth about the blue cast to this centerfold. Was 
Playboy hedging on the exposure thing by being artsy, or were they 
playing off Liv's cool complexion? Or both?

Photographer: Alexas Urba

Scoring:
Pin-up: 4.0
Erotic: 3.5
Artistic: 4.0

Overall: 3.8

Cyber Club Portfolio Photo I like better than the Centerfold: none

http://cyber.playboy.com/members/playmates/files/1971/01/centerfold.html

Mark Tomlonson
Kalamazoo MI