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"MAGAZINE
PUBLISHERS HAVE LANDED A NEW way to shore up revenue: send the writers on
vacation, and get people to pay to go with them. Inspired in part by the
conservative National Review, which has dabbled in marketing vacations at
sea since 1994, both the leftist Nation and the bookish New Yorker recently
christened cruise-and-lecture ventures. Cosmopolitan and Town & Country
are also thinking about casting off. Here's a quick guide to the seafaring
'zines" (Time Magazine, March 1, 1999).
| MAGAZINE |
THE NATION |
NATIONAL REVIEW |
THE NEW YORKER |
| SHIP |
M.S. Veendam |
M.S. Rotterdam VI |
Crystal Symphony |
| ROUTE |
Florida-Caribbean |
London-St. Petersburg - Copenhagen |
Los Angeles- Lisbon |
| DURATION |
7 days (12/6 to 12/13/98) |
12 days (7/18 to 7/30/99) |
99 days (1/18 to 4/28/99) |
| SPOKESMAN'S DESCRIPTION |
'All the lefties in one place.'
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'Bill Buckley and a host of cold war heroes'
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'The Four Seasons of cruises meets the Four Seasons of magazines' |
BIG-NAME
SPEAKERS
INCLUDE... |
Alex Cockburn, Jim Hightower, Christopher Hitchens, Molly Ivins,
George McGovern, Katha Pollitt, Calvin Trillin |
Richard Allen, Bill Buckley, Alexander Haig, Edwin Meese, Sam
Nunn, Caspar Weinberger |
Kurt Andersen, John Lahr, Susan Orlean, Lillian Ross
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| PUNDITS TO PASSENGERS |
1 to 30 |
1 to 30 |
1 to 900 |
| ENTERTAINMENT |
Impeachment hearings on CNN; Guy Lombardo tunes at midnight |
Cognac and cigars by the pool; side trip to Checkpoint Charlie |
Bridge lessons; Bally's Casino |
| OTHER HIGHLIGHTS |
A seminar on 1998 election results |
A cake shaped like the Berlin Wall |
A seminar on the basics of using a computer |
| COST |
$1,800 to $2,900 |
$4,999 to $17,999 |
$42,000 to $146,000 |
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