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October  1988  Issue
 
 
Something's Rotten in the Ballpark

 
SPECIAL REPORT--THE POLITICS OF THE OLYMPICS
Introduction
Editor
Bursting Onto the World Scene
Stephen Kirby
South Korea: The New Asian Model
Richard G. Lugar
Seoul and the Great Powers
Richard G. Stilwell
Tokyo and the Koreas
Hong N. Kim
Meeting Security Needs
J.Y. Ra
The 'Real' Attraction of the Games
Richard Espy

ANALYSIS
Jordan: Under the Shadow of the Uprising
Robert Satloff
Supporting the Right Side in Mozambique
Christopher Gregory
As the Gulf War Winds Down, Arms Purchases Step Up
W. Seth Carus
Limited Policy Options for Zia's Successors
Khalid Duran
Toward a Post-Soviet Afghanistan
Elie D. Krakowski

COMMENTARY
Prejudiced Press and the Election
Brent H. Baker and Marc S. Ryan
Moscow's New Military Doctrine: A Tamer Bear?
Andrew C. Goldberg
Tapping the Benefits of European Technology
Arnold Kramish

 

 
DIMENSIONS
Those Titillating Tabloids: Love 'em or Leave 'em
Harvey Hagman

FOOD
The Incomparable Cabbage
Eloise Paananen

GARDENS
Discover Dry Storage
Walter Chandoha
Love Those Tulips!
Virginia Greiner

HEALTH
Medical Quackery: The Hazard of Unproven Remedies
Alexandra Greeley

HOME
Door Décor: Simple Holiday Gifts
Florence Temko

HUMOR
Mitts Are for Sissies
Carl Peterson

LEISURE
Murder Mystery Weekends: People Are Dying to Play Detective
Judy Wade

PATHWAYS
The Channeling Craze: Helpful or Hogwash?
Steve Kaplan

 

 

FEATURED BOOK: Louise Erdirch's Tracks
Introduction
Editor

Louise Erdrich Sets the Pace
William W. Bevis

Between Two Fires
Louis Owens

REVIEWS
Paleo Cuisine
Ashley Montagu
THE PALEOLITHIC PRESCRIPTION
S. Boyd Eaton, Marjorie Shostak, and Melvin Konner
CHOLESTEROL & CHILDREN
Robert E. Kowalski

The Wolves Always Come
Robert W. Crandall
AND THE WOLF FINALLY CAME
John P. Hoerr

A Rosy Scenario
David Brooks
THINKING ABOUT AMERICA
Annelise Anderson and Dennis Bark, editors

Psychopathic Vet Serial Killer and Friends
John M. Del Vecchio
KOKO
Peter Straub

Social Insecurity
Grover Norquist
SOCIAL SECURITY
Merton C. Bernstein and Joan Brodshaug

The Heidegger Enigma
Richard L. Rubenstein
HEIDEGGER ET LE NAZISME
Victor Farias

Shanghaied in Peking
Richard Amber
PEKING
Anthony Grey

Inside the Evil Empire
Maurice Friedberg
THE KIROV AFFAIR
Adam B. Ulam

The Hybrid Private Eye
Robert F. Geary
CRIMSON JOY
Robert B. Parker

Baseball Myths, Masters, and Magic
Jim Brosnan
THE BASEBALL HALL OF FAME 50TH ANNIVERSARY BOOK
Museum and Library, Inc., and Gerald Astor

Not a Pretty Picture
Bruce Bawer
PICTURE THIS
Joseph Heller

The Colossus That Was Rhodes
Byron Farwell
THE FOUNDER
Robert I. Rotberg, with the Collaboration of Miles F. Shore

Freud for Believers
Larry D. Nachman
FREUD
Peter Gay

The Statue Beneath the Stone
Ben Bova
INVENTING REALITY
Bruce Gregory

Discovering the Historical Jesus
Andrew Wilson
JESUS WITHIN JUDAISM
James H. Charlesworth

The Colossus That Was Rhodes
Byron Farwell
THE FOUNDER
of Miles F. Shore

 

 
 
   

 
ARCHITECTURE
Southern California Triumphant: The Architecture of Frank Gehry
Shira Rosan

ART
Back on Track: The Venerable Venice Biennale
Michael Gibson

CRAFT & DESIGN
Clay Revisions: The Messy, the Rough, and the Accidental
Susan Biskeborn

DANCE
Frankfurt Ballet: Dancing for Yuppies
Nancy Vreeland Dalva
Dark Night of the Soul: Bausch Dance Style Is Powerful but Grim
Gary Parks

DESIGN
Gae Aulenti: Italy's Most Talked-About Architect
Nancy G. Heller

FILM
You Can't Go Home Again: A West German Film Breaks a Taboo
Paul Coates
West Coast Xanadu: UCLA's Extraordinary Film Archives
Lawrence O' Toole

INTERARTS
Korea's Namsadang: Fresh From the Olympics
Paula S. Lawrence

MUSIC
An Expressionistic Nightmare: Janacek's Katya Kabonova at Glyndebourne
Herb Greer
A Great Czech Composer Comes Into His Own: Leos Janacek
Andrew Clark

PERSPECTIVES
SoHo: The World's Premier Marketplace for Contemporary Art
Jason Edward Kaufman

THEATER
Sacco, Vanzetti, and Rosie
George Szamuely
Gardzienice: The Heart Is a Language: Polish Theater Group Speaks to the Collective Unconscious
Peter Lawrence

 

   
AT THE EDGE
Giving Athletes the Edge
Joann T. Dennett and Nancy Keogel
Trapping the Light Fantastic
Diane Johnson
Frontiers in Cosmology, Part Two
G. Siegfried Kutter
Help for the Shelf Life of Fresh Fish
Robert C. Lindsay

IMPACTS
Batteries: Storing Energy
Michael Woods

NATURE WALK
Chambers to the Past
Peter Douglas Ward

SCIENTISTS: PAST AND PRESENT
Othniel C. Marsh and Edward Drinker Cope: Dinosaur Prospectors
Dwight G. Smith

 

   
CROSSROADS
African Dance in Transition
Robert W. Nicholls
Asian Australia
Particia Braun

FOLK WISDOM
Spirit of the Tiger
Evelyn McCune
The Dragon King's Daughter: A Han Chinese Folktale
Shien Min Jen

HERITAGE
Wisconsin's Belgians
William G. Laatsch

PEOPLES
Begun in Beauty, Finished in Beauty
Ronald McCoy
Tagaguist
Stephen Parkhurst
The Bedoul of Petra
Vivian Ronay Barry

 

   
FREE TRADE AND ITS CRITICS
'Chicken Little' and the Myth of International Trade
Lioyd R. Cohen

SPORTS IN THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD
The Myth and Reality of Elite Amateur Sport
D. Stanley Eitzen
God and Games in Modern Culture
Lonnie D. Kliever
For Whom Sport Tolls: Players, Owners, and Fans
Dean A. Purdy
Beyond the Obvious: A Critical Look at Sport in the U.S.
Jay Coakley
Discovering Fool's Gold on the Golden Horizon
Richard E. Lapchick
Sport and Communities
Lincoln Allison
Sports Participation as a Builder of Character?
George H. Sage
Sport as Play
Gary Alan Fine

THE SOVIET UNION IN AN ERA OF CHANGE
The 19th All-Union Conference of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union: A Milestone in the Development of Perestroika
Rolf H.W. Theen

 
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