The New York Times Magazine 1995 |
Title | Subject | Authors |
0.5 seconds: an egghead at the plate.(Column) | | Fred T. Catapano |
1,000 light-years from Nashville. (a country singer Jimmy Dale Gilmore, who is not from Tennessee) | | Nicholas Dawidoff |
$6 a dance. (ballroom and Latin dance lessons for elderly women in Miami, Florida) | | Lou Ann Walker, Mary Ellen Mark |
Age before beauty. (fashion show with older models) | | Dana Thomas |
A gift decade. (on being sixty-something) (Hers) (Column) | | Sue Hubbell |
A great hair day. (driving nine hours to a favorite hair dresser)(Style)(Column) | | Deirdre McNamer |
'A horrid little racist.' (amid conservative biased Yankees and liberal southerners)(What Grown-Ups Don't Understand: A Special Issue)(Cover Story) | | William Styron |
A manifesto of sorts for a Black feminist movement. | | Kristal Brent Zook |
American Express applies for a new line of credit. (goal is to regain lost market share)(includes a related article on how refusal to join American Airlines on a frequent flyer deal was a bad business decision)(Company Profile) | | Stephen D. Solomon |
America's front lawn. (Lafayette Park) | | Maureen Dowd |
A mover of markets. (Dan Dorfman, financial advisor and Money magazine columnist who gives TV reports) | | Saul Hansell |
A new day for American music: by returning to its roots, jazz has found its future.(Jazz: A Special Section) | | Stephen J. Dubner |
An older, wiser, humbler wunderkind. (conductor Michael Tilson Thomas)(Interview) | | David Schiff |
Another summer, another love song: 1955-1995.(the top popular music love songs, year-by-year)(Cover Story) | | Stephan Talty |
A poet of their own. (W.S. Merwin)(includes a poem) | | Dinitia Smith |
A rescue without cheers. (Whites saving a Black drowning victim)(About Men)(Column) | | Peter D. Kramer |
Australia discovers its Chinese gold. (Melbourne and surrounding areas; includes list of restaurants and hotels)(The Sophisticated Traveler) | | John Krich |
A Victorian spa marches on. | | Robert Barnard |
A war in the family: the story of the Zecevics - and of Bosnia.(Cover Story) | | Roger Cohen |
A zone of his own: Tiger Woods. (golf champion) | | Peter de Jonge |
Bad behavior: the Salem witch hunts become a metaphor for a trial over a teacher's crude language. (poet/teacher Stephen Dobyns)(Column) | | Francine Prose |
Barney and Bosnia. (former White House staffer) | | Tara Sonenshine |
Baroque splendor in an old port. (Genoa, Italy; includes a list of hotels)(Unexpected Cities: Special Supplement) | | John Russell |
Beach dreams. (summer fashions) | | Cynthia Zarin |
Beat king: Salif Keita. | | Quincy Troupe |
Behind the camera, a feminist. (Ida Lupino, 1918-1995, actress, director)(The Lives They Lived)(Obituary) | | Martin Scorses |
Behind the seams. (haute couture) | | Dana Thomas |
Belittled big men. (mental health and the pressures on the Florida State University football players)(Cover Story) | | Pat Jordan |
Beltway warrior. (General Colin L. Powell) | | Michael R. Gordon, Bernard E. Trainor |
Big city amenities. Trees. High-tech jobs. Cappuccino. Retirement Paradise. Nose rings: the rise of the college city, the best new place to live. (includes demographic information on several college cities) | | Mike Steere, Witold Rybczynski |
Bit parts. (celebrity body parts) | | Marjorie Rosen |
Bohemia, where fairy tales might be true. | | Francine Prose |
Bombs bursting in air, still. (Americans have a tradition of violence in dealing with many domestics issues) | | Sean Wilentz |
Brace yourself. (woman buys a corset to help a herniated disk heal)(Column) | | Joyce Wadler |
Brat rap. (young rap singers) | | Retha Powers |
Breach of contract with part of America. (Republican agenda) | | Stephen L. Carter |
Cam Fella goes under the knife. (surgery on famous horse) | | Lee Gutkind |
Campaign '96: an insider's guide to who must do what when to get you-know-where.(One Day at a Time)(Cover Story) | | Richard L. Berke |
Cataloguese.(On Language)(Column) | | Willian Safire |
Changing weather. (language used to describe weather events and other language changes)(Column) | | Jeffrey McQuain |
Chicago con salsa: Mexico in the Midwest, a fiesta of food, poetry, and music, minutes from The Loop. (includes a directory of Mexican restaurants in Chicago)(Unexpected Cities: Special Supplement) | | Ana Castillo |
Children of the Beats. (eight offsprings of Beat poets speak of their parents and childhood) | | Simon Carr, Lisa Jones, Daniel Pinchbeck, Jan Kerouac, Parker Kaufman, Christina Mitchell, Tara Marlow, Curtis Hansen, John Allen Cassady, Barron Claiborne |
Christian McBride: godson of soul. (jazz bassist and band leader)(Jazz: A Special Section) | | Joseph Hooper |
City of orphans. (Kabul, Afghanistan) | | John F. Burns |
Claiming the music: a descendant of cantors guards a legacy for her own daughter.(Column) | | Deborah Weisgall |
Classic combinations: three experts choose wines for favorite Italian dishes. (includes recipes)(Special Advertising Section: A celebration of Life) | | John Brady, Brown Pat |
Claude Steele has scores to settle. (how African Americans perform on standardized tests) | | Ethan Watters |
Coloring history (their) our way. (proposed Enola Gay exhibition to mark end of World War II exposes Japanese and US problems with interpretation of the war) | | David E. Sanger |
Complex cowboy: Bruce Nauman. (artist) | | Andrew Solomon |
Confess and be happy. (About Men) | | David Ray |
Creature comfort: you'd think all the finger-waggers had never enjoyed a little oral gratification of their own. (anti-thumbsucking)(Hers)(Column) | | Meg Wolitzer |
Dabbling dads. (the 'gentleman father' is like the 'gentleman farmer')(About Men)(Column) | | Sean Elder |
Damian Woetzel. (dancer-choreographer with the New York City Ballet) | | Jesse Kornbluth |
Death on the CNN curve, (the life and death of Robet O'Donnell, baby Jessica's rescuer)(Cover Story) | | Lisa Belkin |
Denying history disables Japan. (atrocities and agressions in World War II) | | Oe Kenzaburo |
'Does anyone here think this baby can live?' (the birth and death of a 24-week-old-fetus named Dylan DeCosta) | | Darcy Frey |
Dole vs. hairarchy: a lost commencement address. (spoofing Sen. Bob Dole with a satirical speech to graduating barbers)(Endpaper)(Column) | | Bruce McCall |
Doll house party: the Stettheimer sisters.(computer manipulations produce pictures of New York salon life in the 1900s depicted in a two story high doll house made by Carrie Stettheimer) | | Jean Nathan |
Don't scapegoat the gerrymander. | | Lani Guinier |
Dr. Divorce: need advice? Strive to be distant; aim to be shy. And never share the same tissue.(About Men)(Column) | | Daniel Asa Rose |
Dream interiors.(Special Advertising Supplement) | | |
Dressed to kill. (the components of a western businessman's attire are traced back to their roots)(Style)(Column) | | Eric Nash |
Dressed to live. (autobiography by Ilene Beckerman) | | Judith Thurman |
Driving blind: truth is just one of the perils on the matrimonial highway.(About Men)(Column) | | Walter Owen |
Dr. Smith goes to sexual-rehab school. (Dr. John E. Smith was found innocent of sexual misconduct with patients but undergoes training and evaluation) | | Laurie Abraham |
Dublin: ghosts and voices, there are presences everywhere, held in memory and imagination, from Daniel O'Connell to Leopold Bloom. (includes a directory of hotels)(Unexpected Cities: Special Supplement) | | Thomas Flannagan |
Dusty rides again. (after cancer, Dusty Springfield has a new album to try and continue her career)(Interview) | | Rob Hoerburger |
Easy writer. (Terry Southern, 1924-1995, author of novels and screen plays)(The Lives They Lived)(Obituary) | | Bruce Jay Friedman |
Endpaper: the story of Z. (women and sleep) | | Elizabeth Rapoport |
Eve in the garden of Aspen. (philanthropist Elizabeth Paepcke) (Lives Lived Well) | | Ted Conover |
Every fish tells a story. (fishing trips) | | Louis Aston Marantz Simpson |
Expert at sea. (Endpaper) | | Cathleen Schine |
Expressive justice is all the rage. | | David C. Anderson |
Extra help: should a teacher check his affection at the door?(About Men)(Column) | | Alan Gelb |
Fall feasting. (mushrooms, hazelnuts, cider, wine, game and fish harvested from six places around the world) | | Frank J. Prial, Patricia Wells, Susan Allen Toth, Maureen B. Fant, Elizabeth Andoh, Susam G. Hauser |
Fashion dictator. (Fidel Castro) | | Ken Gross |
Fashion hits home. (Home Design) | | Stephanie Strom |
Fear of dyeing: aging gracefully sometimes means hair-politics have to take a back seat to vanity.(Hers)(Column) | | Susan Shapiro |
Final passage. (humorous reflections on life changes) | | Bruce McCall |
Flying finish: there is acrobatic beauty in the life of a dying lover. (the healthy partner reflects)(About Men)(Column) | | Bill Hayes |
Football's finest failure. (Dallas Cowboy's Herschel Walker; the man and the player) | | Allen Barra |
For an America that loved freaks. (members of P.T. Barnum's circus photographed by Mathew B. Brady)(Illustration) | | Philip B. Kunhardt Jr., Philip B. Kunhardt III, Peter W. Kunhardt |
Force is forever. (post-coup civil-military relations in Chile) | | Tina Rosenberg |
For the sake of children.(What Grown-ups Don't Understand: A Special Issue)(Cover Story) | | |
Forward to the past: the 1990's are starting to look like the 1890's; even as nations are being overwhelmed by markets, nationalism is growing stronger. | | Walter Russell Mead |
Fossilizing. (use of old sayings)(Column) | | Jack Rosenthal |
Fresh blood: Leonardo DiCaprio. (actor) | | Jesse Green |
From Huck Finn to Calvin Klein's billboard nymphets. (images of children and childhood)(What Grown-Ups Don't Understand: A Special Issue)(Cover Story) | | Walter Kendrick |
Galileo, phone home. (six-year journey to Jupiter approaching its end)(unmanned space craft Galileo) | | Thomas Mallon |
Garrison guilty. Another case closed. (former Louisiana District Attorney Jim Garrison) | | Gerald Posner |
Getting into character. (eight famous writers pose in the costume of their favorite literary character)(Illustration) | | Scott Turow, Jane Smiley, Joyce Carol Oates, Michael Cunningham, Norman Mailer, Scott Spencer, Donna Tartt, John Irving |
'Ghost legs': fast-break friendships for an American in Africa. | | Nicholas Weinstock |
Gifts of gab. (dictionaries)(On Language)(Column)(Buyers Guide) | | WIlliam Safire |
Git along, little doggerel. (Cowboy Poetry Gathering) | | Sara Davidson |
Giving drugs a good name. (drug companies hire experts to give their products memorable brand names) | | Julie Erlich |
Gored. (the ethics of Spanish bullfighting)(Column) | | Christopher Matthews |
Gore Vidal receives a visitor. (finally grants an interview)(Interview) | | Andrew Solomon |
Governor get-a-job Tommy Thompson. (Wisconsin governor) | | Norman Atkins |
Green days. (gardening) (Hers) | | Lynn Freed |
Gretel's skull discovered! (satire of some fairy tales) | | Eric Metaxas |
Grozny's morning after. (Chechnya, Russia) | | Michael Specter |
Handmade house. (A Greek Revival house in the Hudson Valley of New York)(Home Design: Special Supplement) | | William L. Hamilton |
Happy ( ) day to you. (Hallmark cards and the greeting card industry)(Cover Story)(Company Profile) | | Gerri Hirshey |
'Hello. This is Alan Smith of the National Enquirer ....'(popular tabloid reporter) | | Pat Jordan |
Her bouffant magnificence. (Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis) (Lives Lived Well) | | Wayne Koestenbaum |
Here's to you. (father-in-laws) (About Men) | | Daniel Asa Rose |
He who dances. (gay writer John C. Russell) (Lives Well Lived) | | |
High time in the high Tatras. (Slovakian mountain resorts; includes addresses of two travel services)(Unexpected Cities: Special Supplement) | | Michael Newshaw |
History and mystery on Nevis. (Caribbean island; includes a list of travel agents, and a listing of tourist attractions)(Unexpected Cities: Special Supplement) | | Josephine Humphreys |
Hooked on boy books. (girl book reader switches)(Hers)(Column) | | Tamar Lewis |
How pot has grown. (marijuana gardening) | | Michael Pollan |
How the 49ers beat the salary cap. (San Francisco 49ers) | | Allen Barra |
How their kids are just like them: so, like, what's a rep tie? (Lakeside School, a private school in Seattle. Washington)(The Rich: Special Issue) | | Robert Sullivan |
How the propeller heads stole the electronic future. (a future dominated by television is shattered by the advent of Internet and Netscape software) | | Steven Levy |
How the soul is sold. (psychoanalytic theory of James Hillman and Thomas Moore) | | Emily Yoffe |
How they give it away: benefits are her business. (Diana Beattie Events produces fundraisers)(The Rich: Special Issue) | | James Lardner |
How they keep it. (prenuptial agreements)(The Rich: Special Issue) | | Jan Hoffman |
How they make it now: starting at cornerback for the Dallas Cowboys, when he's not endorsing products or managing his investments or diversifying in another sport .... (Deion Sanders)(The Rich: Special Issue) | | Bruce Schoenfeld |
How they never see the end coming: the 90's are not the 80's ... yet.(The Rich: Special Issue) | | Po Bronson |
How they see themselves: big boys will be cowboys. (the rich favor ranches with jetports)(The Rich: Special Issue) | | Mark Stevens, Lars Tunbjork |
How they spend it: A-Z, what a lot of money can buy.(The Rich: Special Issue) | | Peter Passell |
Hush of suicide. | | Jennifer Farbar |
'Ich bin O.K., du bist O.K.' (Thomas A. Harris, 1910-1995, psychiatrist and author of 'I'm O.K., You're O.K.')(The Lives They Lived)(Obituary) | | Bruce Handy |
If Haiti had Nintendo. (immigrant children in Brooklyn, NY)(What Grown-Ups Don't Understand: A Special Issue)(Cover Story)(Brief Article) | | Rebecca Johnson |
If it's Tuesday, it must be Dad's house. (joint child custody) | | David Sheff |
If they built a memorial to the war in the streets. (monuments to the urban dead) | | Herbert Muschamp |
If you don't love it, leave it. (cyberspace without censorship) | | Esther Dyson |
I'll take a dozen of the nontoxic Kachina dolls, please. (The 'Quest for America's Best' is an unusual yearlong exercise in marketing) | | Bob Ickes |
I'm back: I'm soaring once again. But enough about you. (loyalty and disloyalty in the fall and rise of a rich man)(About Men)(Column) | | Donald Trump |
Immigrants in, native whites out. (foreigners are replacing whites in some metropolitan areas) | | William H. Frey, Jonathan Tilove |
Imperial Innsbruck, the Hapsburgs' fair city. (Innsbruck, Austria; Hapsburg royal family)(The Sophisticated Traveler) | | Dan Hofstadter |
In defense of honest labor. (Victor Riesel, 1913-1995, and Walter J. Sheridan, 1925-1995)(The Lives They Lived)(Obituary) | | Pete Hamill |
In defense of material Christianity. (devotional images and objects in the popular culture) | | Colleen McDannell |
In her tracks. (athlete Wilma Rudolph) (Lives Lived Well) | | Evelyn Ashford |
Integrated paths. (Hamilton Holmes, 1941-1995, along with Charlayne Hunter, integrated the University of Georgia)(The Lives They Lived)(Obituary) | | Charlayne Hunter-Gault |
In the beginning was the word - and they've been arguing about it ever since: Everett Fox defends his new translation of the Bible and three scholars respond. | | Everett Fox, Reynolds Price, Robert Alter, Frank Kermode |
In the Muslim city of Bethlehem: the Israelis have pulled out and Christians are nervous. There's more to peace than good will. | | Andre Aciman |
In the Sinai, a vision of sand, stars and sea. (includes hotel directory)(The Sophisticated Traveler) | | Marianne Wiggins |
In the well-made place. (interiors of a kitchen, a New York City apartment, and two homes)(Home Design: Special Supplement) | | Julie V. Iovine, Laurel Graeber, John Duncan Oliver |
Is it art, or just dead meat? (artist Damien Hirst's work features dead animals, some rotting) | | Sarah Lyall |
I spotted Grandpa's watch.... (a childhood theft)(What Grown-Ups Don't Understand: A Special Issue)(Cover Story) | | Russell Banks |
It isn't the peso, it's the presidency. (Mexico) | | Andrew A. Reding |
It's 7 P.M., and 5 percent of Omaha is calling: want 28 steaks and a radio? (telemarketing's phone staff) | | Barry Singer |
It's drugs, stupid. | | Joseph A. Califano |
It's not fun to be the boss of your parents. (spoiled children)(What Grown-Ups Don't Understand: A Special Issue)(Cover Story) | | Bruce Weber |
Jesus before he could talk: a literary appreciation of the endangered infant whose life has had such awesome theoretical scope.(Cover Story) | | Jack Miles |
Jimmy Iovine. (Interscope Records Pres.) | | Patrick Goldstein |
Judge Hayden's family values: a month inside the mind of Katherine Sweeney Hayden. (family court judge) | | Jan Hoffman |
Keeping tabs on Jim Crow: John Hope Franklin. | | Peter Applebome |
Keep out! (a boy's bedroom)(Endpaper)(Column) | | Lynda Barry |
Lee Harvey's oldest: June Oswald. (daughter of Lee Harvey Oswald)(Interview) | | Steve Salerno |
Legal maxims for our times. (lawyer Louis Nizer) (Lives Lived Well) | | |
Let them eat cake: where some parents see fatness, one mother sees only baby fat.(Hers)(Column) | | Michelle Stacey |
Little soldiers: a field of boyhood games grows into basic training for deadlier combat. | | Michael W. Cox |
Live and let die: a doctor's best hopes can be a patient's worst nightmare.(deciding when a loved one's illness has reached the point of no return)(Column) | | Brickman. Harriet |
Lives well lived. | | |
Local heroes: the Dodgers move into Bay Ridge, and a young fan swoons. (a section of Brooklyn, N.Y where Dodger team members rented apartments for the summer in the 1940s)(About Men)(Column) | | Raymond Siller |
Looking out for no. 1, 2, 3.... (raising children) (Column) | | Steven Lewis |
Look who's talking health care reform now. (a Democrat evaluates the current Republican stance on health care) | | Paul Starr |
Loser chic: a new concept in fashion for the overworked, underappreciated, sorely tried white male. (satire)(Men's Fashion of the Times) | | Frank Cammuso, Hart Seely |
Making nasty. (entertainer Michael O'Donoghue) (Lives Well Lived) | | Marilyn Suzanne Miller |
Mali adventure, from Timbuktu to Dogon country. (includes directory of tour operators)(The Sophisticated Traveler) | | Roberta Allen |
Manhattan transfer. (a small New York City clothing store liberated a man)(Style)(Column) | | Bernard Lefkowitz |
Mar-a-Lago Boulevard. (satire) | | Michael Rubiner |
Margaret Kelly Michaels wants her innocence back. (woman convicted of child molestation wins appeal, and sues people who accused her of the crimes) | | Nancy Hass |
Mary, Mary, quite contrary: it isn't easy to accept, but Mary Tyler Moore is not Mary Richards. She is an insecure, talented person trapped in the aura of an icon, struggling to find her way out. | | Jonathan Van Meter |
Matrons of honor. (old ladies of yesterday)(Style)(Column) | | Naomi Blivens |
Minestre stagionali: soups of the season. (includes recipes)(Special Advertising Section: A celebration of Life) | | |
'Mohandas.' (a spoof on Disney movies, this time on Mahatma Gandhi)(Endpaper)(Column) | | Eric Metaxas |
Moon dust: a friend's audacious act triggers lunar fantasies.(Column) | | Dava Sobel |
Moved by the data, not doctrine. (James S. Coleman, 1926-1995, social science teacher at Johns Hopkins University links family to education success)(The Lives They Lived)(Obituary) | | Daniel Patrick Moynihan |
Mozart, Verdi and the Tale of Genji. (opera houses around the world)(The Sophisticated Traveler) | | Calvin Sims, Steven Erlanger, Sheryl WuDunn, Alan Riding, Dirk Johnson, Jane Perlez |
Mud pact: the boys and me at Peck Pond, and my initiation into the rewards of life.(Hers)(Column) | | Helen Winternitz |
My chair, my self. | | Richard Sennett |
My father's black pride: thanks to his white father, a son learns to appreciate the gift of his African-American heritage.(Column) | | Marcus Bleeker |
My lost Egypt. (chaos with the Old Guard, the middle class, the military, fundamentalists and the lower classes on a collision course) | | Sana Hasan |
My parents' bust-up, and mine.(What Grown-Ups Don't Understand: A Special Issue)(Cover Story)(Brief Article) | | Walter Kirn |
Navel maneuvers. (body piercing) (About Men) (Column) | | Tom Singman |
New electronics: to be heard and not seen: from stereos to phones, high-tech machines are pulling off a new trick - a disappearing act.(Home Design: Special Supplement)(Buyers Guide) | | John Birmingham |
Newt's real target: the other Roosevelt: the Speaker's new Republican majority represents Southern Democrats of old far better than it does the Grand Old Party. (Newt Gingrich) | | Walter Russell Mead |
Night calls. (friendship over the telephone) | | Joyce Wadler |
Night shift. (preparing for bed takes so much time)(Column) | | S.S. Fair |
No, but I heard the soundtrack. (spoof on salesman writing interoffice memos on the idea of linking best sellers with tapes of the music that inspired the authors)(Endpaper)(Column) | | George Kalogerakis |
No martyrs in Waco. (surviving Branch Davidians' attitude toward the militia and the death of their loved ones) | | Sam Howe Verhovek |
No sex. No drugs. But rock 'n' roll. (Christian rock musicians) | | Nicholas Dawidoff |
Not so fast. (to change the destruction of earth's ecology, people have to change their behavior) | | Bill McKibben |
Not-so-lethal weapons: items from the police catalog, coming soon to a precinct near you. | | Mike Grudowski |
NOW, then. (Kathryn F. Clarenbach; National Organization for Women) (Lives Lived Well) | | Ellen Chesler |
Off the grid. (radical right-wing survivalist movement; Idaho) (Cover Story) | | Philip Weiss |
Oldies but goodies. (satire on a rock festival given by liberal Democrats of the past)(Endpaper)(Column) | | Jamie Malanowski |
On thin ice, one last time: Will Steger. | | Jon Bowermaster |
Our dinner with Louis. (Louis Malle, 1932-1995, movie director is discussed by director Andre Gregory and actor Wallace Shawn)(The Lives They Lived)(Obituary)(Interview) | | William Grimes |
Our reading list. (author Francis Steegmuller) (Lives Well Lived) | | Shirley Hazzard |
Out of the crayons of babes. (children's art) | | Garry Trudeau |
Peter's friends. (novelist Peter Taylor) (Lives Well Lived) | | Robert Giroux |
Pleasures of the Pacific Rim. (The Sophisticated Traveler) | | Vivienne Flesher |
Pony tale. (the symbolism of haircuts in motion pictures) | | Ken Gross |
Portraits of the mental patient as inspired artist: near Vienna, residents of the Gugging mental hospital are commanding top gallery spaces - and top prices - for their art. | | Samantha Weinberg |
Present shock. (Alvin and Heidi Toffler co-authors of the futuristic book 'Future Shock' get a career revival when Newt Gingrich endorses their new writings on futurism)(Interview) | | Claudia Dreifus |
Priapus laughed. (temporary impotency)(Column) | | Lloyd Van Brunt |
Protestant and paranoid in Northern Ireland. | | John Darnton |
Radically entertaining. (journalist Andrew Kopkind) (Lives Lived Well) | | Calvin Trillin |
Return of the punk panther. ('Pink Panther' movies director Blake Edwards directs his wife Julie Andrews in Broadway play, 'Victor Victoria')(Cover Story) | | Philip Weiss |
Rewriting the end: Elizabeth Kubler-Ross. | | Jonathan Rosen |
Roger Ailes: embracing the enemy. (television executive and Republican supporter) | | Nancy Hass |
Runaway memory. | | Linda Wolfe |
Safety in numbers. (Paris) (Style) | | Mary Jo Salter |
Sampras or Agassi: a 90s kind of rivalry. (tennis champions Pete Sampras and Andre Agassi)(Cover Story) | | Peter de Jonge |
Say what? (U.S. dialects on the wane)(On Language)(Column) | | William Bryson |
Sequel in the rye. (satirical letter from agents trying to persuade J.D. Salinger to agree to their wacky version of a 'Catcher in the Rye' film sequel)(Endpaper)(Column) | | Frank Cammuso, Hart Seely |
Session man. (pianist Nicky Hopkins) (Lives Lived Well) | | Ray Davies |
Silence is olden. (long speeches by Newt Gingrich and Bill Clinton) | | Maureen Dowd |
Ski vacation '95.(Special Advertising Supplement) | | Lois Friedland |
Some like it hot. (shoplifting) (Style) | | S.S. Fair |
Sowing a garden's spirit: even a rooftop can be a patch of Eden if the plantings suit the site and the soul of the gardener.(Home Design: Special Supplment) | | Anne Raver |
So you want to win a Nobel Prize. (the 1995 literature winner will be announced Sept. 1995) | | Blake Morrison |
Spine tinglers. (dispute over whether cactuses have spines or thorns)(On Language)(Column) | | Patricia T. O'Connor |
Stalking the great spangled fritillary? (butterfly watching) | | George Plimpton |
Stepping back: sometimes you must be willing to watch a fire burn without fighting it. (cowardice and bravery)(Column) | | Edward Hoagland |
Still afraid of being caught.(What Grown-Ups Don't Understand: A Special Issue)(Cover Story) | | John Updike |
Stop nitpicking a genius. (Wynton Marsalis, includes a Jazzography of selected milestones in the genre from 1840, plus best sellers and personalities)(Jazz: A Special Section) | | Frank Conroy |
Supernovas (Patric Walker, 1931-1995 and Linda Goodman, 19??-1995, astrologers) (The Lives They Lived)(Endpaper)(Column)(Obituary) | | Chip Brown |
Suspect confessions.(social psychologist Richard Ofshe fights against coerced and self-deluded false criminal confessions)(Interview) | | Richard Jerome |
Sweater girl: an old-fashioned pastime provides the perfect counterpoint to the rhythm of modern life.(Hers)(Column) | | Susanna Rodell |
Take this park and love it. (American millionaire Douglas Tompkins' plan to create an enormous national park in Chile may not succeed) | | Jon Bowermaster |
Taking affirmative action apart.(Cover Story) | | Nicholas Lemann |
Taking the cure. (masturbation) | | Dan Wakefield |
Taming the bullies of Bosnia: frenetic as usual, Richard Holbrooke shouted, whispered and threatened, even to excess. The Balkan blood rivals came around. His critics are another story.(Cover Story) | | Roger Cohan |
Teeing off in style. (women's golf clothes) | | Carol Vogel |
Teen-age infidels hanging out. (westernization of Iranian youths) | | Geraldine Brooks |
Tell about the needle. (children of various ages find different things bad)(What Grown-Ups Don't Understand: A Special Issue)(Cover Story) | | Betsy Israel |
Terminal kitsch. (About Men) | | Neal Karlen |
Terror on an eight-hour shift: when Mike Hensley makes his rounds at the maximum-security prison in Lucasville, Ohio, he calculates every step. (prison guard)(Cover Story) | | Bruce Porter |
The 13th sign. (horoscope) (Endpaper) (Column) | | Cathleen Schine |
The atelier movement. (interior design) (Home Design) | | Arlene Hirst |
The best of enemies. (Richard Nixon) (Lives Lived Well) | | Daniel Schorr |
The Bosnia calculation. (estimating the casualties of war) | | George Kenney |
The butterfly garden. (Home Design) | | Susan Ferraro |
The Caribbean destinations of the sun.(Special Advertising Supplement) | | |
THe carrying kind. (plastic tote bags in Moscow, Russia)(Style)(Column) | | Ann Hulbert |
The chain gang show: humiliating prisoners, for political profit. | | Brent Staples |
The CIA's most important mission: itself. (Aldrich Ames the double agent, and the loss of Congressional and public support plague the agency and its new director, John Deutch)(Central Intelligence Agency) | | Tim Weiner |
The city inside Achilles Rizzoli's head: found, a cache of stunningly intricate and profoundly weird drawings. Their creator was even more bazarre.(draftsman-artist of San Fransico and his intricate art) | | Jaime Wolf |
The conception, production and distribution of Julia Ormond. (Cover Story) | | David Blum |
The conciliator. (former President Jimmy Carter) | | Jimmy Wooten |
The counter counterculture. | | James Atlas |
The cowboy waltz. (learning county-western dancing)(Column) | | Kathleen Dean Moore |
The Cuban-American princess. | | Daisann McLane |
The deadliest D.A. (Philadelphia D.A. Lynne Abraham's pro-death penalty stance)(includes a summary of death penalty records for 9 county prosecutors)(Cover Story) | | Tina Rosenberg |
The designer who defied time. (Terence Harold Robsjohn-Gibbings) (Home Design) | | William L. Hamilton |
The DNA we've been dealt. (value of genetic mapping)(Cover Story) | | Charles Siebert |
The emasculation of sports. (Cover Story) | | Robert Lipsyte |
The experiments of Dr. Oz. (Mehmet Oz, a cardiothoracic surgeon, researches alterative healing) | | Chip Brown |
The false notes he never played. (Jerry Garcia, 1942-1995)(The Lives They Lived)(Obituary) | | Ken Kesey |
The fathers of P.R. (Edward L. Bernays, 1891-1995, and Henry C. Rogers, 1914-1995)(The Lives They Lived)(Obituary) | | Neal Gabler |
The fist in the velvet glove. (Vaclav Klaus prime minister of the Czech Republic) | | Jane Perlez |
The good witch. (Elizabeth Montgomery, 1933-1995, television actress)(The Lives They Lived)(Obituary) | | Camille Paglia |
The greening of the humanities: deconstruction is compost. Environmental studies is the academic field of the 90's.(Includes list of readings, top courses, and gurus) | | Jay Parini |
The hat and the catwalk. | | Mary Jo Salter |
The hazards of summer. (comparing the dangers in nine summer activities)(Illustration) | | |
The monument glut. (proposed Black Revolutionary War Patriots Memorial in Washington, D.C.) | | James Reston Jr. |
The news from camp. (summer-camp humor)(Endpaper)(Column) | | Michael Rubiner |
The No. 1 summer song of love.(how 'I'll Be There for You/You're All I Need to Get By' unexpectedly became the top popular music love song of 1995)(Cover Story)(Industry Overview) | | Stephan Talty |
The office that Ozzie built. (Ray Ozzie is the creator of Lotus Notes now owned by International Business Machines) | | Paul Keegan |
The one left behind. (a woman reporter courts danger in Sarajevo while her husband worries about her back at home in the US)(About Men)(Column) | | David Berreby |
The original Tom, Dan and Peter. (John Cameron Swayze, 1906-1995, first TV anchorman, NBC pioneer)(The Lives They Lived)(Obituary) | | Tom Snyder |
The pain game: Milton needs his morphine. And, reluctantly, his doctor supplies it.(Hers)(Column) | | Abigail Zuger |
The perfect rally: in tennis, your partner has to follow through.(Hers)(Column) | | Joyce Maynard |
The philosopher as giant-slayer. (Karl Popper) (Lives Well Lived) | | Ryszard Kapuscinski |
The poet kings and the versifying raffle. (includes two poems) | | |
The poetry pantheon. (directory of who's who in the literary world) | | Dinitia Smith |
The queen of the green. (Grand Queen of Holyoke's yearly St. Patrick's Day Parade; beauty contest winner Marikate Moriarty) | | Madeleine Blais |
The radical center or the moderate middle? (disaffected voters) | | Michael Lind |
The readiness gap. What gap? (military preparedness) | | Lawrence J. Korb |
The reopening of the frontier, (The Great Plains state of North Dakota among others is being depopulated) | | Charles Harbutt |
There, there. (on the use of the word 'there's') (On Language) (Column) | | Wiliam Safire |
The road less traveled.(satire - luxury sport utility autos)(Endpaper)(Column) | | Tracy Young |
The Roseanne of literature. (Dorothy Allison, lesbian writer and a finalist for the 1992 National Book Award for novel 'Bastard')(Interview) | | Alexis Jetter |
The savor of Cairo. (Egypt) | | Mimi Sheraton |
The short flight of a fighter pilot. (Kara S. Hultgreen) (Lives Lived Well) | | Catherine S. Manegold |
The sins of the grandfathers: how German teen-agers confront the holocaust, and how they don't. | | Peter Schneider |
The survivor: Dan Rather on Westinghouse, Connie Chung, Ted Turner, Larry Tisch, Peter and Tom, Michael Stipe and Kenneth.(Interview) | | Claudia Dreifus |
The Ten Commandments of a childhood (Endpaper)(Column) | | Mark Richard |
The things they leave behind: remembering Vietnam through the baseball gloves, baby pictures, love letters, boots and pumps left for the men on the wall. (at the Washington D.C. Vietnam Veterans Memorial)(Illustration) | | Charles Harbutt |
The trashing of professionalism. | | Louis Menand |
The trickle-down theory of architecture. (Cover Story) | | Witold Rybczynski |
The triumph of the prime-tim novel. (the power of the television drama as a literary mirror of daily life) (includes related articles on writers Steven Bochco and Robert Nathan and an article on a story meeting for "Law and Order" writers) | | Robert Sullivan, Charles McGrath |
The trouble with wilderness: wilderness is no more 'natural' than nature is - it's a reflection of our own longings, a profoundly human creation. | | William Cronon |
The Vichyssoise of ice cream. (Mattus' Lowfat Ice Cream; Reuben Mattus) (Lives Lived Well) | | Ruth Reichl |
The vocabulary of votes: Frank Luntz. (Republican pollster and political strategist) | | Elizabeth Kolbert |
The water-gun hearings. (humor about not owning a gun) | | Herbert Stein |
The women in their ranks: learning not to be nice.(The Rich: Special Issue) | | Mary Cantwell |
This diva is diffident. (Dawn Upshaw, Metropolitan Opera soprano)(Interview) | | Wayne Koestenbaum |
This is me? (self-preception among pre-teens)(What Grown-Ups Don't Understand: A Special Issue)(Cover Story) | | Carey Goldberg |
Ticket to trouble. (winning the lottery)(Cover Story) | | Lois Gould |
Titled Bohemian: Caroline Blackwood. (Irish writer) | | Michael Kimmelman |
Totally authentic flavors of Sicily. (includes article on street markets)(The Sophisticated Traveler) | | Mary Taylor Simeti |
Tough Texan: Phil Gramm. | | Richard L. Berke |
Tuning in to the bigger picture. (large-screen televisions) (Home Design) | | Dulcie Leimbach |
Two sides of Baltimore, quirky and classic. (includes restaurant reviews and hotel listings)(The Sophisticated Traveler) | | John Ash |
Unabsolute truths: Clifford Geertz. (anthropologist) | | David Berreby |
Uncle Bob. (Senator Bob Dole) | | Ruth Shalit |
Uncovering history, layer upon layer, in Salonika. (Greece) (includes list of attractions and restaurants)(The Sophisticated Traveler) | | Benedict Nightingale |
Under the big top. (fashion shows in New York City) | | Michael Crawford |
Unforgiven: a big brother is haunted by his inability to be his sister's protector.(About Men)(Column) | | David Ray |
Upward fragility. (five men from DuSable High School struggle to succeed) | | Alex Kotlowitz |
Urban Arcadia: Bryant Park in Manhattan, once a magnet for miscreants, has been transformed into a bustling oasis. (New York City park design)(Home Design: Special Supplement) | | Mitchell Owens |
Urban greeneries. (parks and botanical gardens) (The Sophisticated Traveler) | | Sam Howe Verhovek, David E. Sanger, David Margolick, Dirk Johnson, Isabel Wilkerson, Peter Applebome, Anne Raver |
Utah, by ski and snowboard. (the Wasatch range has resorts for the two sports; includes a list of lodging places)(Unexpected Cities: Special Supplement) | | William Finnegan |
Vampirecountry.com. (spoof has author Anne Rice chatting on the Internet)(Endpaper)(Column) | | Tracy Young |
Victims of the 14th-floor window. (childhood prank)(What Grown-Ups Don't Understand: A Special Issue)(Cover Story) | | Thomas Beller |
Vietnam's student. (Les Aspin, 1939-1995)(The Lives They Lived)(Obituary) | | R.W.W. Apple Jr. |
Virtual virtuoso. (multimedia game designer Joe Sparks)(Interview) | | Michael Krantz |
Waiting for the rebbe. (Rabbi Menachem Schneerson) (Lives Lived Well) | | Clyde Haberman |
Wanted: a kinder, gentler cop. (Los Angeles Police Department) | | Richard Rayner, Joseph Rodriguez |
War without end: twenty years after the fall of Saigon, thousand of Vietnamese are still trying to find a home.(Illustration) | | Sebastiao Salgado |
Welcome to World World. (spoof on theme parks)(Endpaper)(Column) | | David Ives |
What a few hummable tunes will buy: on Andrew Lloyd Webber's walls, the world's finest collection of high Victorian art. | | John Russell |
What makes Billy Joe Run: there's never a shortage of fringe presidential candidates. But this year, their far-out platforms don't seem so far out.(Billy Joe Clegg and seven other candidates profiled.) | | Mike Grudowski |
What the roaches told her. (Berta Scharrer, 1906-1995, researched human nervous system using cockroach brains)(The Lives They Lived)(Obituary) | | Charles Siebert |
What they look like to the rest of us. (anthropologist Fran Lebowitz)(The Rich: Special Issue)(Interview) | | James Atlas |
What they saw at the Holocaust Museum. | | Philip Gourevitch |
Where the thrills of old keep coming round: in an age of plastic theme parks, Kennywood is the real thing.(in western Pennsylvania) | | Peter Passell |
Who needs America Online? (chief programmer, Ted Leonsis must help AOL beat the competition) | | Jesse Kornbluth |
Who put the lid on gp120? (AIDS vaccine glycoprotein 120) (Cover Story) | | Jesse Green |
Who they are: the upper tail, yes the rich keep getting richer. And the very rich are really raking it in.(The Rich: Special Issue) | | Andrew Hacker |
Who will face the music: when it comes to the nearly broke Social Security system, virtually nobody. | | Elizabeth Kolbert |
Why boys don't play with dolls: children get the message loud and clear. Can we change what they hear?(Column) | | Katha Pollitt |
Why their world might crumble: how much inequality can a democracy take?(The Rich: Special Issue) | | Lester C. Thurow |
Why they deserve it: Michael Eisner is worth $200 million a year. (head of Walt Disney Co.)(The Rich: Special Issue) | | Michael M. Weinstein |
Yangon, a city of light and shadow. (Myanmar: includes a directory of hotels)(Unexpected Cities: Special Supplement) | | Philip Shenon |
Yankee, come home. (humor)(satirical hiring of fugitive Robert Vesco by New York Yankees owner George Steinbrenner)(Column) | | Frank Gannon |
Yesterday's tomorrow. (a look at some predictions about the 21st century made from the 1930s through the 1970s)(Endpaper)(Column) | | Rose DeWolf |
Zine dreams. (popular underground magazines now courted by book sellers, Hollywood, and record companies) | | David M. Gross |
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