ANALYSIS
The Pope Looks Toward the 21st Century
George Weigel
The Presidential Crisis in Lebanon
As'ad Abukhalil
After the Party: Post-Olympics Korea
David I. Steinberg
Soviet Pacific Policy Aims
Shiro Shimamura

COMMENTARY
Postwar Iraq: Regional Power or Pariah?
Christine Moss Helms
A Regional Approach to Latin America's Economic Crisis
William J. Weissman
The UN: Still a Long Way to Go
Mark A. Franz
Civil Defense in the SDI Era
Richard E. Sincere, Jr.

 

FOOD
Christmas Gingerbread Castles
Kathleen Prentice

HOME
Breaking the Poinsettia Habit
Virginia Greiner

HUMOR
Some Call Me Scrooge
K.N. Hardin

LEISURE
Manhattan's Window Magic
Reena Kazmann
Savvy Shopping
Michael Krondl

PASTIMES
Decorative Giftwrap: You Dye to Give It Away
Florence Temko

SPORTS
Sledding!
Harvey Hagman

REVIEWS
From the Caliphate to Khomeini
Khalid Durán
THE POLITICAL LANGUAGE OF ISLAM
Bernard Lewis

Addiction in the '80s
Nancy Dudley
POPPIES
Eric Detzer
THE ADDICTIVE PERSONALITY
Center City, Minnesota: Hazelden Foundation, 1988

Walk This Way
Tom Carter
THE LONGEST WALK
George Meegan
BEHIND THE WALL
Colin Thubron
PATHS LESS TRAVElLED
Edited by Richard Bangs and Christian Kallen

Asianomics
Thomas J. Ward
THE THIRD CENTURY
Joel Kotkin and Yoriko Kishimoto

ART
Grand Prix Racing and Modern Art
Richard H. Axsom

ART IN CRISIS
Introduction
Cynthia Grenier
Notes on Art at the End of the Eighties
Hilton Kramer
Theories of Art
Umberto Eco
Fra Angelicao, Fra Lippo Lippi, Paolo Uccello, and Friends
Glenn Andres and A. Richard Turner
What Romanticism Has Wrought
Edward Lucie-Smith
Looking Back on Symbolism
Michael Gibson
The Year of Wonders—1900
Frederick R. Karl
Two Thousand Years of East Meeting West
Stephen Addiss
The Reenchantment of Art
Suzi Gablik
Postmodernism and the Romantic Temper
Jane Addams Allen

DANCE
A Gala for Graham
J. Percival
José Greco and His Flamenco Family
Gary Parks

FILM
Charlie (Bird) Parker Flies Again
Armstrong Rollins
Toronto: Feast on Film
Lawrence O'Toole

INTERARTS
Opera for the Couch Potato
Robert Levine

MUSIC
Revolutionary—and Conservative: The Mighty CD
Todd Culbertson

PHOTOGRAPHY
Alfred Stieglitz: Father of American Photography
Darwin Marable

POETRY
Eighth-Century Women in Love
Translated by Graeme Wilson

THEATER
The Secret Life of Sherlock Holmes
Herb Greer

IMPACTS
Bridges: Bridging the World
Emory L. Kemp

NATURE WALK
Frankincense: A Desert Balm
Nigel Groom

SCIENCE ESSAY
Carbon Dioxide and Future Climate
Michael H. Glantz

SCIENTISTS: PAST AND PRESENT
Michael Zasloff: Antibiotic Sleuth
Linda Joyce Forristal with Helmut Muller

FOLK WISDOM
The Dragon and the Beauty
Ra Jong-Yil

HERITAGE
'The Lord Hath Helped Thus Far'
George Fenwick Jones

PEOPLES
Stag and Earth Mother: Pagan Beliefs in Ancient Britain
Robert W. Nicholls
Mumming in Newfoundland
A.M. Powers
Frysksinnichheid: Frisian Language and Heritage
Jelma Sytske Knol