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...Shilts said, a Navy enlisted man, whose sexual advances were rejected by the women aboard ship, posted signs reading "No Dikes." When a woman sailor complained to the captain, he ignored her complaint of sexual harassment, and instead put her under investigation on suspicion of being a lesbian, Schilts said...

Author: By Samuel P. Brown, | Title: Military Called 'Anti-Gay' | 3/9/1991 | See Source »

...downright dirty word. Russell Means, the Native American activist, says the explorer "makes Hitler look like a juvenile delinquent." In a new revisionist biography, The Conquest of Paradise (Knopf; $24.95), author and environmentalist Kirkpatrick Sale portrays Cristobal Colon (to name Columbus correctly) as a grasping fortune hunter, a mediocre sailor and an incompetent governor of Spain's New World colonies, whose legacy to the Indians he "discovered" was rapine, servitude and death...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ideas: Good Guy or Dirty Word? | 11/26/1990 | See Source »

...recent visitor wearing a navy blue vintage sailor's suit, shorts, black knee socks and an electric blue...

Author: By Molly B. Confer, | Title: Thomas Lauderdale: High Energy Plus Fashion Sense | 11/16/1990 | See Source »

Junior John Dickson has been the strongest sailor in the B-division in the past weeks. However, due to the variable factors in sailing, the pairing for the second boat is determined on a weekly basis...

Author: By Daniel E. Kosowsky, | Title: Reaching for Glory | 10/11/1990 | See Source »

Wild at Heart begins with the moody Sailor (Nicolas Cage) bashing a black man's head into pulp. And Sailor is the good guy in this storm-sky fresco of two crazy kids on the run. Sailor and his girlfriend Lula (Laura Dern) hightail it to New Orleans and Texas, where they encounter fat-lady porn stars and a slick psychopath (Willem Dafoe) who loses his head, literally and spectacularly, in a bank heist. To Barry Gifford's source novel Lynch adds a murder plot, an Elvis impersonation, a few torture scenes, a drug cartel, some cockroaches and a happy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Wizard Of Odd | 8/20/1990 | See Source »

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