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| The Generalities of Cultures |
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RAY B. BROWNE AND PAT BROWNE |
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| MYTHS |
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The Real Life Adventures of Pinocchio |
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24 | (11) |
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| HEROES AND HEROINES |
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NASCAR Racing Fans: Cranking Up an Empirical Approach |
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38 | (9) |
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The Concept of Hero against Democracy |
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47 | (7) |
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| ICONS |
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Just the Right Touch: By Introducing a Note of Modesty, Marilyn Monroe's Gloves Actually Heightened Her Come-Hither Allure |
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56 | (4) |
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Honky-Tonk Poet: Fifty Years after His Death at Twenty-nine, the Music World Still Marvels at Hank Williams's Homespun Hits |
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60 | (10) |
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Measuring Up: Obesity in Young Boys Is on the Rise, and So Are Eating Disorders. Whose Fault Is That? Try G.I. Joe |
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Ferrari's Latest Toy Goes for a Cool $675,000 |
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The Masks of Mickey Mouse: Symbol of a Generation |
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79 | (10) |
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| PREOCCUPATION WITH CHILDHOOD |
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From Control to Adaptation: America's Toy Story |
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90 | (12) |
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| STEREOTYPES |
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102 | (13) |
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Have You Been Injured? The Current State of Personal Injury Lawyers' Advertising |
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104 | (8) |
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112 | (3) |
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| FORMULA |
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Dick Francis's Six-Gun Mystique |
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117 | (10) |
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| RITES AND RITUALS |
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Religious Fervor Is Building for Pro-Football Fans: Pageantry, Ritual of Big Game Have Spiritual Tone, Experts Say |
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128 | (6) |
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Forgotten Cemeteries Unearth Buried Treasures |
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134 | (5) |
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Descendants of Ohio's Earliest People Fight to Save Mounds |
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139 | (3) |
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| HOME AND ENVIRONMENT |
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142 | (7) |
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When Half as Big Is More than Enough |
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145 | (4) |
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| YOUTH, AGE, AND CHILDREN |
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A New Battle over Day Care |
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151 | (3) |
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Oh Dad Poor Dad, Your Daughter Has Looked in Your Closet and I'm Feeling So Sad: Daughters Dissing Daddy in the Memoir |
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154 | (10) |
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| NOSTALGIA |
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164 | (4) |
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Don't Let Your Childhood Die |
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165 | (3) |
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| WHAT TO DO WITH THE OLD PEOPLE? |
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After a Full Life, at Seventy-five, One's Duty Is to Die? |
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170 | (2) |
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| FADS |
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Delight in Disorder: A Reading of Diaphany and Liquefaction in Contemporary Women's Clothing |
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174 | (10) |
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184 | (3) |
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| FASHION |
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187 | (5) |
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188 | (4) |
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| FOODS |
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192 | (18) |
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195 | (10) |
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Selling 'Em by the Sack: White Castle and the Creation of American Food |
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205 | (5) |
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| PERSONAL APPEARANCE |
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Outside-In: Body, Mind, and Self in the Advertisement of Aesthetic Surgery |
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212 | (12) |
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| CULTURAL EXCHANGE |
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224 | (8) |
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The Vanishing Global Village |
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225 | (7) |
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| AIR TRAVEL |
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Luggage-Transport Service Expects Growth |
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234 | (4) |
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| SIGHTSEEING AND VACATIONING |
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238 | (11) |
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241 | (5) |
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The Wonderful World of History: Why Travel without Heritage Is like TV without Color |
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246 | (3) |
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| MUSEUMS |
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In Virtual Museums, an Archive of the World |
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251 | (5) |
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| POPULAR ART |
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Defining Trade Characters and Their Role in American Popular Culture |
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258 | (15) |
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| CELEBRATIONS |
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273 | (17) |
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275 | (2) |
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Celebrations: Rituals of Popular Veneration |
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277 | (10) |
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Buckeyes Bask in Glory: OSU's National Title Is for the Ages-Past, Present, and Future |
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287 | (3) |
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| POPULAR LITERATURE |
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292 | (4) |
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The Killer inside Me: He's a Murderer. And a Model Inmate. Should Wilbert Rideau Go Free? |
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296 | (5) |
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Rewriting the Romance: Bodice Rippers Are More Popular than Ever, and Julia Quinn Is Taking Them into the Postfeminist Future |
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301 | (5) |
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Comic Book Fandom and Cultural Capital |
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306 | (21) |
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Science Fiction Films of the Eighties: Fin de Siècle before Its Time |
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327 | (13) |
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| MUSIC |
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340 | (17) |
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341 | (3) |
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Alan Jackson, a Man among Legends: Singer Says "No way," but Others Say He's One of Country's All-time Best |
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The Importance of Hip-Hop and Rap: A Question of Resistive Vernaculars |
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348 | (9) |
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| TELEVISION, RADIO, AND NEWSPAPERS |
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Number of Religious Broadcasters Continues to Grow |
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358 | (5) |
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Protect Religious Freedom |
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363 | (4) |
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Strong, Funny...and Female: Prime-time TV Has Focused on Women |
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367 | (4) |
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| WORLD OF MOVIES |
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371 | (4) |
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372 | (3) |
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| SURVEY OF YEAR'S POPULAR ENTERTAINMENT |
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The Big Fat Year in Culture |
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376 | (13) |
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| ADVERTISING: THE SOFT AND THE HARD SELL |
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There's No Escape from Ads, Even in the Backseat |
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390 | (3) |
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| General Look at Popular Culture Studies Backward and Forward |
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