The New York Times Magazine 1993 - Abstracts

The New York Times Magazine 1993
TitleSubjectAuthors
24 candidates in search of a city: Los Angeles chooses a mayor, and a future. (Los Angeles, California)(includes related information)General interestJane Fritsch
A Black Panther's long journey: Elaine Brown's life is comfortable now, but the passing years haven't quelled the anger. (includes related information on Angela Davis, Ericka Huggins and Kathleen Cleaver)General interestRosemary L. Bray
Added color. (garden accents) (Home Design: A Certain Style)General interestChippy Irvine
After the fall. (child's accident) (Column)General interestRichard M. Cohen
A Holocaust Rorschach test. (Holocaust memorials) (Illustration)General interestJames E. Young
Airborne. (women's rights and the military)(Hers) (Column)General interestLesley Hazleton
All pain, no gain. (tattoos) (Column)General interestPenn Jillette
America: love it or loathe it. (Russian obsession with U.S.)General interestDavid Remnick
American know-how and Russian oil: a case study of why capitalism and bureaucracy don't mix.General interestAnn Imse
American roots. (Home Design: A Certain Style)General interestRoxana Robinson
An army of the faithful. (Christian Coalition)(includes related information) (Cover Story)General interestRobert Sullivan
Are women's hearts different? (heart disease prevention)(includes related article) (Self-Health Movement)General interestRobin Marantz Henig
A river of one's own. (Hers) (Column)General interestMarjorie Sandor
A slow fade. (narrative of a father's deterioration)(Hers) (Column)General interestCathleen Medwick
A slow, methodical calming of the mind. (meditation)General interestDaniel Goleman
Asthma kills: in spite of drugs - and because of drugs - the death toll rises.General interestRobin Marantz Henig
A university town cast in gold. (Salamanca, Spain; includes related information) (special section: The Sophisticated Traveler)General interestMalcolm Bradbury
A voyage among misty isles. (Alaska's inside passage; includes related information) (special section: The Sophisticated Traveler)General interestRuth Rendell
Baby diva. (opera singer Cecilia Bartoli)General interestLinda Blandford
Baby sitters' boss tells all. (humor)(Hers)General interest 
Bald intimidation. (About Men) (Column)General interestRichard Brookhiser
Bathed in glory. (bathroom design)General interestJoan Duncan Oliver
Big Brother's here: and - alas - we embrace him. (security and privacy)General interestFloyd Abrams
Big girls don't cry. (fashions for women who wear a size 12 dress or larger)General interest 
Blaming the Bundesbank. (new president of German bank Hans Tietmeyer)General interestCraig R. Whitney
Body language in Somalia: letter from an exhausted land.General interestDiana Jean Schemo
Boksburg's goofy white smiles. (white supremacist South African city)General interestBill Keller
Bringing Hollywood home. (movies' influence on fashion)General interestAmy M. Spindler
Browsing the world's largest stores. (special section: The Sophisticated Traveler)General interestDavid E. Sanger, Marlise Simons, Stephen Kinzer, Celestine Bohlen, Francis X. Clines, William E. Schmidt
Bumpy ride. (Soviet air travel) (Column)General interestSteven Erlanger
Can I interest you in a Schnabel, Mr. Ovitz? (art dealer Arnold Glimcher) (Cover Story)General interestAllan Schwartzman
Can this man save hockey? (Eric Lindros)General interestCharles P. Pierce
Capital ghosts. (living in Washington, D.C.) (Column)General interestMaureen Dowd
Capturing the butterfly. (drug syndicate member Marlene Navarro)General interestDavid McClintock
Cash on delivery. (paying for news stories) (Column)General interestJohn Tierney
Castles in the sand: Fire Islanders have built their camps on a battleground. And once in a while the sea rises up to remind them where they are. (precarious environmental factors for the survival of homes on Fire Island off of Long Island, New York) (Cover Story)General interestElizabeth Hawes
Catered affair. (hiring a caterer)General interestFlorence Fabricant
China in the year 2000. (political predictions)General interestNicholas D. Kristof
Colonialism's back - and not a moment too soon.General interestPaul Johnson
Count to 10 and pet the dog. (anger and health)(includes personality test) (special section: Good Health)General interestLaura Mansnerus
Crying wolf over elephants: how the international wildlife community got stampeded into banning ivory.General interestRaymond Bonner
Date rape's other victim: in their claims of a date-rape epidemic on campus, feminists subvert their own cause. (Cover Story)General interestKatie Roiphe
David Geffen: still hungry. (Cover Story)General interestBernard Weinraub
David Gergen, master of the game. (White House press secretary) (Cover Story)General interestMichael Kelly
Death benefits. (career of photojournalist) (Column)General interestMalcolm W. Browne
De Klerk's Gorbachev problem. (Frederik W. de Klerk; Mikhail Gorbachev)General interestBill Keller
Does fashion matter? (quotes from celebrities on their opinions of dress style)General interestEric P. Nash
Double-talk. (journalists in Hollywood, California, and Washington, D.C.) (Endpaper: Life and Times) (Column)General interestBernard Weinraub
Drinking water comes to a boil. (water contamination in cities) (Cover Story)General interestSara Terry
Dr. Jeffrey Sachs, shock therapist. (economic reforms in Russia)General interestPeter Passell
Elegy for a hero. (Cesar Chavez)(About Men) (Column)General interestDouglas Foster
Emma Thompson's family business. (Cover Story)General interestRussell Miller
Enormous changes at the last minute: how did the old Poland become the new Poland overnight?General interestJohn Darnton
Exit the Queen: all hail the Duke of Gloucester. (alternate successor to Queen Elizabeth II)General interestA.N. Wilson
Falling into place. (About Men) (Column)General interestJaime O'Neill
Farewell, Huck. (loss of childhood illusions) (Column)General interestLloyd Van Brunt
Fate-of-the-earth furniture. (environmentally friendly furniture)General interestMarisa Bartolucci
Fatty Patten's last stand. (Christopher Patten; Hong Kong)General interestNicholas D. Kristof
Fermat's theorem. (verifying Andrew Wiles' solution to math equation)General interestJames Gleick
Fight sleepism, nap now: the case for a midday snooze.General interestJames Gorman
Finding Washington at home: at Mount Vernon, reflections of an elusive man. (George Washington; includes related information) (special section: The Sophisticated Traveler)General interestT.H. Breene
Finishing up. (selling the family home)(About Men) (Column)General interestDoug Dundas
Four futures for Russia.General interestDavid K. Shipler
Free radicals: the price we pay for breathing. (special section: Good Health)General interestNatalie Angier
Gardens of earthly delight: Henry Edwards Huntington's estate in San Marino, Calif., is an illustrated encyclopedia of world flora. (includes related information) (special section: The Sophisticated Traveler)General interestBeverly Lowry
Getty's burger dress. (voice recognition computers) (Column)General interestJames Barron
Giant-killers. (martial arts for children)(Hers) (Column)General interestSallie Tisdale
Give and take. (personal story of incest) (Column)General interestLinda Katherine Cutting
Going home. (female guerrillas in El Salvador)(Hers) (Column)General interestCaitlin Bird Francke
Gotta dance! (men and dancing)(About Men) (Column)General interestRob Hoerburger
Graveyard of the Statues: communist heroes, in perspective.General interestSylvia Plachy
Growing public participation in volunteer activities. (special advertising supplement: Japan Speaks: A Guide for Your Better Understanding of Japan)General interest 
Gunmen, $150 a day. (Somalia ) (Column)General interestJane Perlez
Happily ever after in Camelot: holding court with Robert and Vera Goulet.General interestAlex Witchel
Hawks on Fifth. (watching hawks that settled on Fifth Avenue in New York City, New York)General interestMarie Winn
Holland without a country. (film director Agnieszka Holland)General interestRoger Cohen
Home movies: setting up a showcase theater in the living room. (Home Design: A Certain Style)General interestHans Fantel
'Hopefully' springs eternal. (On Language) (Column)General interestCathleen Schine
Housebroken. (Hers) (Column)General interestJoyce Maynard
How Jack Kemp lost the War on Poverty.General interestJason DeParle
How Milosevic stole the election. (Slobodan Milosevic)General interestDouglas E. Schoen
How the foreign policy machine broke down.General interestMark Danner
How to avoid a food fight with your kids. (nutrition habits)(includes related article and recipes) (Self-Health Movement)General interestMark Bittman
'How we adopted me.'General interestJane Marks
Hurricane of the mind.General interestCatherine S. Manegold
If productivity's rising, why are jobs paying less? (effect of technology on employment)General interestSteven Rattner
I'm a travelin' man. (tips on traveling)General interestJim Mullen, Hal Rubenstein
I met my daughter at the Wuhan Foundling Hospital. (adoption in China) (Cover Story)General interestBruce Porter
Inside Russia's gangster economy: why capitalism and the mafiya mean business.General interestStephen Handelman
In the realm of the fire goddess. (Volcanoes National Park; includes related information) (special section: The Sophisticated Traveler)General interestW.S. Merwin
Iowa, colored blue. (aftermath of the 1993 flood in the Midwest)General interestMary Swander
Iraq accused: a case of genocide. (includes related article on biological weapons) (Cover Story)General interestJudith Miller
Is humanity suicidal? (Cover Story)General interestEdward O. Wilson
It's a (blond-haired, blue-eyed, even-tempered, Ivy-bound) boy!General interestRichard Liebmann-Smith
Jackknifed! (truck accidents)General interestEric P. Nash
Jane Campion's lunatic women. (film maker from New Zealand)General interestMary Cantwell
Japan - five decades later, a world apart. (special advertising supplement: Japan Speaks: A Guide for Your Better Understanding of Japan) (Panel Discussion)General interest 
Japan Inc. is lending a hand to the needy. (special advertising supplement: Japan Speaks: A Guide for Your Better Understanding of Japan)General interest 
Jim Florio's red-hot ice-cold politics. (New Jersey governor)General interestRichard Reeves
Last call. (pregnant 44-year-old woman's dilemma) (Column)General interestElizabeth Berg
Laughing off the recession. (Diane English)General interestHilary De Vries
Lawrence Walsh's last battle. (independent prosecutor in the Iran-contra case)General interestScott Spencer
Leafy green and yellow bodyguards. (antioxidant nutrients)(includes recipes) (special section: Good Health)General interestMark Bittman
Let George be George. (George Steinbrenner) (Column)General interestMurray Chass
Letting in light. (Column)General interestPatricia Raybon
Life is sacred. That's the easy part. (abortion and euthanasia)General interestRonald M. Dworkin
Like, uptalk? (On Language) (Column)General interestJames Gorman
Little big people. (precocious children of well-off parents) (Cover Story)General interestLucinda Franks
Lone star. (Texas governor Ann Richards) (Cover Story)General interestAlison Cook
Look who's saving the elm. (New York City protects its trees from disease)General interestMichael Pollan
Look who's wiring the home now. (public utility fiber-optic communication with customers)General interestSteven R. Rivkin
Lost in India. (man looks for grandfather's grave) (Column)General interestRichard B. Woodward
Loving your enemy. (About Men) (Column)General interestLorenzo Carcaterra
Lucky fellow. (gay men and AIDS)(About Men) (Column)General interestFenton Johnson
Lunch with the Missoni. (Ottavio and Rosita Missoni discuss Italian cuisine)(includes recipe) (Special Advertising Supplement) (Interview)General interestLidia Bastianich
Mississippi learning. (Bob Moses and the Algebra Project)(includes related article) (Cover Story)General interestAlexis Jetter
Mountain manners. (About Men ) (Column)General interestAnthony DePalma
My empty lot. (urban lot in New York City becomes a garden)General interestJoseph Kastner
My life in the military closet: the Sixth Army's Soldier of the Year hid inside a system that forced bonding among men while breeding hatred.General interestJose Zuniga
My mostly companion. (mother-daughter relationship)(Hers) (Column)General interestNancy Kelton
My paper prison. (problems with using Freedom of Information Act)General interestTerry Anderson
Name-dropper. (women and their husbands' names)(Hers) (Column)General interestSusan Ferraro
Natasha Richardson and the Redgrave dynasty. (Cover Story)General interestPeter Conrad
News about the magazine. (announcement of new format for New York Times Magazine) (Editorial)General interest 
News about the magazine. (changes in format and personnel at New York Times Magazine)General interest 
No hair spray, no spangles. (singer-songwriter Mary-Chapin Carpenter)General interestKaren Schoemer
Off the ladder. (reverse discrimination) (About Men) (Column)General interestMichael Scofield
Oliver North's next war. (run for Virginia U.S. Senate seat)General interestPhilip Weiss
On rivers remote and vast. (Venezuela; includes related information) (special section: The Sophisticated Traveler)General interestCharles Corn
Our daily pasta. (varieties of Italian pasta)(includes recipes and related articles) (Special Advertising Supplement)General interest 
Past perfect. (narrative of divorce parents and their grown children who have a reunion in the form of a Mediterranean vacation) (Column)General interestJane Myers
Patrick O'Brian's ship comes in.General interestMark Horowitz
Plane geometry. (photography by Alex S. Maclean)General interestBill McKibben
Possessed. (man describes his battle with Tourette syndrome) (Column)General interestMark Phillips
Preservation. (renovated Chicago apartment)General interestPaul A. Hochman
Pumped up. (women and their personal trainers)(Hers) (Column)General interestDeborah Gimelson
Pumping iron in the parlor. (home gyms) (Self-Health Movement)General interestHerbert Muschamp
Purpose. (house with a vegetable garden)General interestAlice Gordon
Rebels with a checkbook: the graying (and greening) of the hot-rod culture.General interestPreston Lerner
Remaking Russia, by computer. (software industry in Russia)General interestEsther Dyson
Rudolph Giuliani and the color of politics in New York: a white Republican runs for Mayor against a black Democrat - and that, beyond any pretense, is what this race is all about. (New York, New York) (Cover Story)General interestTodd S. Purdum
Saint Hillary. (Hillary Clinton)(Interview) (Cover Story)General interestMichael Kelly
Self-propelled. (rowing trip across the Pacific Ocean)(About Men) (Column)General interestPaul Theroux
Shaking it off. (interviewing Slobodan Milosevic) (Column)General interestMichael T. Kaufman
She's no jockette: Julie Krone may have a soft touch, but she leaves most male jockeys in the dust.General interestMartha Weinman Lear
Shifting family values highlight differences between generations. (special advertising supplement: Japan Speaks: A Guide for Your Better Understanding of Japan)General interest 
Shiva's holy city. (Varanasi, India; includes related information) (special section: The Sophisticated Traveler)General interestBarbara Grizutti Harrison
Should doctors tell the truth? The case against terminal candor.General interestMartha Weinman Lear
Sisters under the skin. (friendship between a black and a white woman) (Column)General interestAudrey Edwards
Sister Sympathy. (Helen Prejean)General interestSue Halpern
Something extra. (philosophy of value)General interestJane Smiley
Spy trader. (Wolfgang Vogel)General interestCraig R. Whitney
Stop blaming baseball. (Cover Story)General interestRichard Ford
Streamlining the ungainly. (finding the right political terminology to describe health care reform) (Column)General interestRobin Toner
Street guns: a consumer guide. (Cover Story)General interestDavid C. Anderson
Sublime designs. (design of everyday objects)General interestLaurel Graeber
Supremely sheltered. (Supreme Court) (Column)General interestLinda Greenhouse
Survival course. (rape victim)(Hers) (Column)General interestSusan Brison
Survival courses: how to plan a sit-down wedding dinner for 65. (includes recipes)General interestMarian Burros
Susan Powter. (promoter of weight reduction philosophy)General interestAlex Witchel
Sweat: manual laborers of the (mostly Third) World; a gallery of portraits. (photography of Sebastiao Salgado) (Illustration)General interestMargarett Loke
Take the money and run: a rogues' gallery of some lucky S.&L. thieves. (savings and loan associations bailout)General interestStephen P. Pizzo, Paul Muolo
Talking trash: the art of conversation in the N.B.A. (National Basketball Association)General interestPeter De Jonge
The 12-step coach. (John Lucas)General interestHarvey Araton
The 43% president. (President Clinton's popularity)General interestAlan Brinkley
The abandoned father of health-care reform. (Alain Enthoven)General interestJohn Hubner
The anguished politics of breast cancer. (Cover Story)General interestSusan Ferraro
The art world bust: hard times may be bad for artists, but no so bad for art.General interestDeborah Solomon
The babies of Bedford: it's wrong to separate infants from their imprisoned mothers. (Bedford Hills Correctional Facility)General interestJean Harris
The beat goes on. (paranoia of a pregnant woman) (Column)General interestDon Montague
The blessing of a desert land. (Mission San Xavier del Bac, Arizona; includes related information) (special section: The Sophisticated Traveler)General interestDenise Chavez
The (bruised) emperor of the outdoors. (Secretary of the Interior Bruce Babbitt)General interestTimothy Egan
The campus crime wave. (Cover Story)General interestAnne Matthews
The career and the kimono. (Japanese empress-to-be Masako Owada)General interestDavid E. Sanger
The company of dogs. (About Men) (Column)General interestJoseph Olshan
The coronation of King Ronnie. (tribal king allowed to return to Uganda)General interestAlex Shoumatoff
The death of eros.General interestAllan Bloom
The detoxing of prisoner 88A0802. (prison rehabilitation programs) (Cover Story)General interestPeter Kerr
The double-bed principle. (discrimination against lesbians) (Column)General interestE.J. Graff
The editor as Gap model: the New Republic and the politics of pleasure.General interestWalter KIrn
The Emerson, con brio. (Emerson String Quartet)General interestCharles Michener
The founding mother: with Emily's List, heiress Ellen Malcolm becomes a new kind of political boss.General interestJon Friedman
The French funk.General interestAlan Riding
The great pretender. (recreating the fashions worn by the Duchess of Windsor)General interestKarl Lagerfeld
The hat trick. (making different hats out of a velvet mob cap) (Illustration)General interest 
The high cost of living. (care of quadriplegic) (Cover Story)General interestLisa Belkin
The invisible immigrants. (Haitians in America)General interestJoel Dreyfuss
The jackpot in television's future. (interactive television) (Cover Story)General interestPeter Carlin
The last days of Castro's Cuba. (Fidel Castro) (Cover Story)General interestJo Thomas
The last skipjack. (death of Chesapeake Bay oyster)General interestTom Horton
The long goodbye. (doctor's narrative of treating an HIV-infected patient) (Column)General interestAbigail Zuger
The long-secret escape of the K.G.B.'s cipher hotshot. (KGB agent defects to United States)General interestVictor Sheymov, Roger Jellinek
The merry mystic. (New Age writer Andrew Harvey)General interestLaura Leivick
The messy science of cetology.General interestJan DeBlieu
The morning-after pill. (Letter to the Editor)General interestBernadine P. Healy, Margaret Brown Cassidy, Randi Jaffee
The power of Love. (singer Darlene Love)General interestRob Hoerburger
The reformation of a street preacher: Al Sharpton tries on the power of 166,000 votes. (Cover Story)General interestCatherine S. Manegold
The reluctant star. (actor Jeff Bridges) (Cover Story)General interestJanet Maslin
The secrets of a Siberian river bank. (victims of 1930s Great Purge)General interestAdam Hochschild
The short goodbye: long hair returns. (special supplement: Men's Fashions of the Times)General interestJim Mullen
The snooty dame at the block party: from elite to street, an epic tale of fashion's democratic explosion. (clothing history) (Cover Story)General interestGerri Hirshey
The sound of Cossack thunder. (return of Russian military horsemen)General interestEllen Binder, Kyle Crichton
The spectacular boom in Andrea Electronics: betting on the future of noise-reduction technology produced a case study in stock-market magic. (how the promise of a device to suppress street noise in pay telephones elevated the company's stock price)General interestFloyd Norris
The spy who fell in love with a shadow. (excerpt from 'Liaison: The Gripping Story of the Diplomat Spy and the Chinese Opera Star Whose Affair Inspired 'M. Butterfly')General interestJoyce Wadler
The telephone transformed - into almost everything. (Cover Story)General interestJames Gleick
The tempest around Stephen Greenblatt.General interestAdam Begley
The United States of asylum. (political refugees seeking asylum) (Cover Story)General interestTed Conover
The WASP descendancy. (Susan Mary Alsop discusses gentry in Washington D.C.) (Column)General interestMaureen Dowd
They were commandos: a season in the lives of the Amherst Hurricanes. (girls' basketball team) (Cover Story)General interestMadeleine H. Blais
This year's prophet. (Michael Lerner)General interestThomas Fields-Meyer
Time bomb in the White House. (Bob Hattoy)General interestRichard L. Berle
Tips for tightwads.General interestAmy Dacyzyn
Tongue tide. (informal language and acronyms) (On Language) (Column)General interestJack Rosenthal
Twelve Italian celebrations. (holidays and feasts) (Special Advertising Section)General interestCarole Field
Uncle Milty's lost kids: a free boarding school shows a costly way to head off delinquency. (Milton Hershey School, Hershey, Pennsylvania)General interestMark Cohen
Unwanted-poem tendencies. (satire of poetry lover joining the Navy) (Column)General interestCathleen Schine
Vikram Seth's big book. ('The Golden Boy')General interestRichard B. Woodward
Waiting game. (prenatal testing) (special section: Good Health)General interestSusan Gilbert
Wears jump suit. Sensible shoes. Uses husband's last name. (messages sent by women's choices)General interestDeborah Tannen
What is it about August? Year after year, this month of dog days brings world wars, coups, natural disasters. And guess when Elvis died. (humor)General interestBruce Handy
What makes Turk tick? (Baseball pitcher Turk Wendell)General interestPat Jordan
What's killing the grapevines of Napa? (return of grape pest)General interestArthur Lubow
What's your learning style? (for recreational sports) (special section: Good Health)General interestJanet Nelson
Who killed privacy?General interestRoger Rosenblatt
Wine food mood. (wine recommendations for food) (Special Advertising Section)General interestPat Brown, John Brady
Wired. (braces for adults) (special section: Good Health)General interestGina Kolata
Wish list. (bridal registries)General interestMarialisa Calta
Workmanship. (prefabricated homes)General interestDouglas Brenner
Young Russia's defiant decadence. (Cover Story)General interestAndrew Solomon
Zaha Hadid builds a building.General interestPhil Patton
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