The Love Boat
Like its sister series, Fantasy Island, ABC's The Love Boat was one of television's most reliable barometers of celebrity. Guests on the show, it was said, were either on t...
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China Studies
The sociological study of China has a complex history. It could be argued that Confucian thought embodied a native tradition of sociological thinking about such things as the family, bur...
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Ten years ago, CHARLES KAISER wrote The Gay Metropolis, the landmark portrait of 20th-century New York viewed through the eyes of gay New Yorkers. A lot has changed since then, from the murder of a...
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Shia LaBeouf is the next Tom Hanks. Or so it hath been officially decreed by the frothing, groaning, don’t-stop-us-now-we’re-on-a-roll Hollywood hype machine that’s been building ...
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When Lucinda Hughes heard she would have to down sea moss elixirs while vacationing in the Bahamas, she was sure it would make her sick. Three months later, Hughes is very sick _ every mo...
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Devils on the Deep Blue Sea: The Dreams, Schemes and Showdowns That Built America’s Cruise-Ship Empires, by Kristoffer A. Garin. Viking, 366 pages, $24.95.
I’ve never taken a Caribb...
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Devils on the Deep Blue Sea: The Dreams, Schemes and Showdowns That Built America’s Cruise-Ship Empires, by Kristoffer A. Garin. Viking, 366 pages, $24.95.I’ve never taken a Caribbean c...
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The Love Boat
China Studies
When We Went Gay
