ANALYSIS
Justice Thomas: How Much Difference Will He Make?
Eugene W. Hickok, Jr.
Strategic Bombing: Terrorist Act or Necessary Force?
Harry G. Summers, Jr.
Eastern Europe: The Rocky Road to Privatization
Nicholas A. Vardy

COMMENTARY
Let's Close Down the Mideast Arms Bazaar
W. Seth Carus
Debating Naitonal Education Tests: We Need National Standards to Compete
Jerry Hume
Debating Naitonal Education Tests: Testing Does More Harm Than Good
Mary H. Shann

MEDIA IN REVIEW
The Hyping of Heterosexual AIDS
Melanie Scarborough

 

CUISINE
Swiss Cuisine: The One and the Many
Eloise Paananen

EDUCATION
Saturn: A School of the Future
John Bremer

PERSONALITY
Kevin Costner
John C. Tibbetts

TRAVEL
Paris Cafes: A Way of Life
Karen Fawcett

TRENDS
Couth in Advertising
Steve Salerno

FEATURED BOOK: Philip Lee Williams' Perfect Timing
Introduction
Editor

fortysomething
Gail Regier

Where's the Beach?
Monroe K. Spears

REVIEWS
Hormonopoly
Beryl Lieff Benderly
BRAIN SEX
Anne Moir and David Jessel

Cochise Meets Clio
Ronald McCoy
COCHISE: CHIRICAHUA APACHE CHIEF
Edwin R. Sweeney

Democracy's Hour
Georgie Anne Geyer
EXPORTING DEMOCRACY
Joshua Muravchik

Virgin Territory
Bruce Fulton
FESTIVAL FOR THREE THOUSAND MAIDENS
Richard Wiley

Dark Day for Justice
Jeremiah Gutman
INQUISITION
Carlton Sherwood

A Continent Adrift
Judith Chettle
AFRICAN SILENCES
Peter Matthiessen

Love's Labors Lost and Transcribed
Linda Simon
BRIEF LIVES
Anita Brookner

White Rogue's Burden
David H. Ehrlich
FLASHMAN AND THE MOUNTAIN OF LIGHT
George MacDonald Fraser

Border Crossings
Kaye Northcott
WOMAN HOLLERING CREEK AND OTHERS STORIES
Sandra Cisneros

ART
The Peculiarly English Painter: John Constable
Michael Rosenthal
An American Artist: Henry Ossewa Tanner
Eric Gibson

DANCE
Ralph Lemon: The New Romanticism
Gary Parks
Nadj's Dance of the Absurd
Maya Wallach

DESIGN
Toshiko Takaezu: Eastern Tradition/Western Individualism
Patricia Malarcher

FILM
Movies of the Maghreb
David H. Ehrlich

MUSIC
Dvorak the Opera Man
Lawrence O'Toole
The Power and the Passion: The Neorenaissance in Britain
Robert R. Reilly

PERSPECTIVES
Funding Excellence?
James F. Cooper

PHOTOGRAPHY
Camera Eye of the Counterculture
Judith Bell Turner-Yamamoto

POETRY
Age, Memory, Love, and Death
Translated by Graeme Wilson

THEATER
Whither Asian-American Actors?
Scarlet Cheng

CRUCIBLES
The Challenge of Ocean, Earth, and Sky
Joseph M. Lubin

NATURE WALK
North America's Marsupial
Dwight G. Smith

SCIENCE ESSAY
A Quiet Chernobyl
Michael H. Glantz and Igor Zonn

SCIENTISTS: PAST AND PRESENT
Michael Faraday: Founder of Field Theory
David Gooding

FOLK WISDOM
Faithful Gelert: The Welsh Historical Legend
Sheila K. Webster

HERITAGE
Our Lady of Miracles: Tradition and Piety Among Portuguese-Americans
Andrei Simic

PEOPLES
Strangers Mediating Strangers: Bicycle Accidents in Inner Mongolia
William R. Jankowiak
Where Chickens Sleep in Trees: The Importance of Chickens in Rural Zambia
Mwizenge S. Tembo
Robin Hoods of the Puszta, Part One: Hungarian Betyars: Rebels Against Social Oppression
Agnes and Steven Vardy