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Anyone who has followed American political discourse of late knows that the answer to both questions is yes -- as long as the bashee is a white heterosexual male. If, as in this case, he is also a Los Angeles policeman who is unwilling to confront his repressed homosexuality, so much...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OPERA: POLITICAL TO A FAULT | 5/29/1995 | See Source »

Meanwhile, in England, the king marris off his homosexual son (Peter Hanly) to a French princess (Sophie Marceau). The prince's homosexuality, effeminacy and poltical weakness are all too conveniently tied together. "The mere sight of him would merely encourage the ememy to take over the whole country," scoffs his...

Author: By Cicely V. Wedgeworth, | Title: Gibson's Kilts Come up Short | 5/26/1995 | See Source »

Over 200 years ago, Japanese fishermen identified this Western weakness for mermaids. An oft-repeated folk tale told of a fisherman who caught a mermaid in his net. She spoke to him, but lived for only an hour. The story made for more than just good listening; industrious Japanese merchants...

Author: By Kathrine A. Meyers, | Title: HARVARD'S LITTLE MERMAID: A MODERN-DAY ODYSSEY | 5/10/1995 | See Source »

A controversy has raged for more than four decades about the reasons for the exit of the Palestinian Arabs in 1947-1948. Any attempt to attribute this mass exit to a single cause is only true in part, and therefore false. In part, the Palestinian Arabs fled with the encouragement...

Author: By Einat Wilf, | Title: Israel's Independence Day | 5/5/1995 | See Source »

With frilly frocks, cloche hats and new names--Curtis becomes 'Josephine,' and Lemmon 'Daphne'--in place, they join an all girl band with a gig in far-away Florida. This is no ordinary all-girl band, for it features Marilyn Monroe, at her ripest and most Iuscious, as Sugar Kane...

Author: By Joel Villasenor-ruiz, | Title: Lemmon Heats Up ARTS FIRST | 4/27/1995 | See Source »

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