ANALYSIS
The 1990 Elections: A Clear Message, Unclear Results
Everett Carll Ladd
The Philippines: Facing Political and Economic Disaster
Jonathan Sikes

COMMENTARY
Desegregation and the Quality of Education
John Sibley Butler
Any Hope for Sudan?
Hisham Osman Khogali
Rx for Israel's Economy
Alvin Rabushka
Seeking Peace in Mozambique
David Hoile

FORUM
The Korean Peninsula: Thaw or Permafrost?
Forum with Richard Lugar, Richard V. Allen, and Selig Harrison

MEDIA IN REVIEW
Smoke Screens Around the Budget Crisis
Joseph C. Goulden

 

FOOD
Scottish Fare for Hogmanay
Kay Shaw Nelson

GARDENS
Interior Plantscaping
Karen Karvonen

NOSTALGIA
Diner at Georgia and Wayne
Peter Holden

PROFILE
The Bolshoi Mac
Donna McDaniel

TRAVEL
Reality: Czech
Maya Wallach

TRENDS
Brave New Supermarkets
Robert James

FEATURED BOOK: Ivan Doig's Ride With Me, Mariah Montana
Introduction
Editor

The Bard in the Bago
Chilton Williamson, Jr.

Western Writing, Ivan Doig, and New Ground
Carl Bredahl

REVIEWS
A Hollywood Cover-up
Russ Braley
DEADLY ILLUSIONS
Samuel Marx and Joyce Vanderveen

The Idiosyncrasies of a Movie Fan
Cynthia Grenier
MEDIUM COOL
Ethan Mordden

Poetry of the Heart
Antony T. Sullivan
VEILED SENTIMENTS
Lila Abu-Lughod

Art and Madness
Melvin J. Friedman
DARKNESS VISIBLE
William Styron

The Magic Storyteller
Linda Osborne
RED WOLF, RED WOLF
W.P. Kinsella

Gothic Reviver
Eric Gibson
THE FOUNDATIONS OF ARCHITECTURE
Translated by Kenneth D. Whitehead

A Verbal Battle of the Sexes
Suzanne Fields
YOU JUST DON'T UNDERSTAND
Deborah Tannen

Religious Politics or Political Religion?
Robert L. Spaeth
UNDER GOD
Gary Willis

When Dispassion Deceives
Robert C. Christopher
THE JAPANESE POWER GAME
William J. Holstein

'Teach Them to Eat Fish Forever'
Patricia Summerside
THE PONDS OF KALAMBAYI
Mike Tidewell

Forged Selves
Robert F. Geary
DEATH'S DARKEST FACE
Julian Symons

ART
Bridgestone Beauties
Eric Gibson
That Brilliant Bohemian Modigliani
Mavis Guinard

DANCE
Bejart Does Valhalla
Maya Wallach

FILM
The Jewish Problem and Polish Films
Paul Coates

MUSIC
The Miracle of Mozart
Robert R. Reilly
Dmitri Hvorostovsky: The Siberian Express
Lawrence O'Toole

PERSPECTIVES
High Art's Affair With Popular Culture
Jason Edward Kaufman

PHOTOGRAPHY
Mark Steinmetz: American Photographer in Paris
Larry R. Thall

POETRY
Japanese Poetry by the Heart
Graeme Wilson

THEATER
The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Humanist: Russia's Cerceau
Richard Grenier
Sad Stories on the British Stage
Herb Greer

IMPACTS
Bubbles: The Impact of Flow Cavitation
Andrea Prosperetti

NATURE WALK
The Frozen Zone
Troy L. Pewe

SCIENCE ESSAY
The Pacific Yew and Cancer
Georgia J. Persinos

SCIENTISTS: PAST AND PRESENT
Carl Oppenheimer: The Microbe Man
Hank Hogan

FOLK WISDOM
Tales of Kobo Daishi
Pack Carnes

HERITAGE
The First Foot
Kay Shaw Nelson

PEOPLES
The Dugu: Health and Healing in Garifuna Societies
Kathryn Vance Staiano
Of Miracles, Faith, and Family: The Veneration of the Virgin in Poland
Philip Gerard