The New York Times Magazine 1995 - Abstracts

The New York Times Magazine 1995
TitleSubjectAuthors
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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