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June  1992  Issue
 
 
Is Television a Vast Wasteland?

 
SPECIAL REPORT--HEALTH CARE IN AMERICA: IS THERE A CURE?
Introduction
Editor
What's Right and Wrong With U.S. Health Care
James A. Rice
The Play or Pay Plan
Dr. Harvey I. Sloane
The President's Proposal
Elise D. Smith
A Consumer Choice Health System
Edmund F. Haislmaier

ANALYSIS
Canada: On the Road to Socialism?
Eric Phillips Beaudan
Greece and Turkey: New Solutions to Old Problems
Nikolaos A. Stavrou
Nation Building in Central Asia
Shireen T. Hunter

COMMENTARY
Is the Flat Tax a Good Idea?: Yes, If Done Right
Norman B. Ture
Is the Flat Tax a Good Idea?: No, for Fairness' Sake
Douglas P. Kelly

ELECTION '92
Can Clinton Save His Candidacy?
Donald Lambro
The Challenge of Ross Perot
Carolyn Barta

MEDIA IN REVIEW
Déjà Vu in '92
S. Robert Lichter

 

 
FOOD
Texas Barbecue: Where There's Fire, There's Smoke
Sharon Hudgins

INTERVIEW
Elayne Bennett: A Friend for All Seasons
Gerald Leighton

LIFE AND IDEALS
The Blue Knight: On a Quest to Save the Children
Richard Nowitz and Varda Avnisan

PERSONALITY
Living With Batman
John C. Tibbetts

PROFILE
Mail by Mule
Gerry Wingenbach

TRAVEL
Vienna, Budapest, and the Traveler's Reward
David H. Ehrlich

TRENDS
Nature Up Close
Connie Sue Bettinger

 

 
BOOKS FROM ABROAD
Material Girls
John Whittier Treat

FEATURED BOOK: Tim Winton's Cloudstreet
Introduction
Editor

Tenants of Time
Bruce Bawer

The Southern Connection
Walter Sullivan

Shadowboxing With God
Melinda Worth Popham

An Interview With Tim Winton
Susan B. Reno

REVIEWS
Feminist Naturalism
Bruce Allen
COLD TIMES
Elizabeth Jordan Moore
POSTCARDS
E. Annie Proulx

Neither Different nor Equal
Elizabeth Fox-Genovese
THE MISMEASURE OF WOMAN
Carol Tavris

Revisiting Partition
Robert Ross
CRACKING INDIA
Bapsi Sidhwa

Generational Glue
Catherine Maclay
FAMILY TALES, FAMILY WISDOM
Robert U. Akeret with Daniel Klein

Pinstripe Poets
Mark Schaffer
THE LITERATURE OF WORK
Sheila E. Murphy, John G. Sperling, and John D. Murphy

The Character Thing
Charles J. Sykes
ON CHARACTER
James Q. Wilson

The Invisible Executive
Gerald Early
THE COMPANY MAN
Brent Wade

 

 
 
   

 
ARCHITECTURE
Sprucing Up Madrid
Marcus Binney

ART
The Transformation of Guercino
Eric Gibson
The Mystique of Kings: Benin Royal Art
Alisa LaGamma

DANCE
Miracle in Copenhagen: Bournonville Festival '92
Camille Hardy
The Goddess Graham
Gary Parks

DESIGN
'First Under Heaven': Korean Ceramics
Robert D. Mowry
The Queen of Korean Arts
Betty Rogers Rubenstein

FILM
Cinema Along the Potomac
David H. Ehrlich

MUSIC
Rossini, Master of Melody
Tom Pniewski

PHOTOGRAPHY
Paul Strand: 'Devoid of Trickery'
Judith Bell Turner-Yamamoto

THEATER
Broadway's Future Is in Its Past
William Ruhlmann
Paris Theater Thrives
Cynthia Grenier

 

   
AT THE EDGE
Microspace Technology
Melinda Gipson
How the Body Adapts to Space
Marsha Freeman
Suicide Genes
Angelo DePalma

CRUCIBLES OF SCIENCE
The Mission of Preservation
Joann Temple Dennett

NATURE WALK
Zone of Combat
Branley Allan Branson

SCIENCE ESSAY
The Recovery of Mount St. Helens
Virginia H. Dale

SCIENTISTS: PAST AND PRESENT
George Bass: The Captain of Underwater Archaeology
Vaughn M. Bryant, Jr.

 

   
CROSSROADS
Wanderers No More: A Generation of Change Among the Bedouin of Israel
Nechemia Meyers

FOLK WISDOM
Manchurian Folk Tales, Part Two: Great Hunters and an Orphaned Heroine
Retold by Pack Carnes

HERITAGE
A Feast for All: Texas Barbecue as a Meal and Social Gathering
Sharon Hudgins

PEOPLES
Under Sail: The Shipwrights and Boatmen of Belize
Tom Zydler
Better to Laugh: Linking Humor, Creativity, and Intelligence
Victor Raskin
Fools--Be Funny!: Stand-up Comedians Are Society's Designated Comic Hitters
Lawrence E. Mintz
Parody and Comment: Comedy in Contemporary Marathi Theater
Mahadev L. Apte

 

   
CHINESE STUDIES
John King Fairbank: A Critical Assessment
Richard C. Thornton

COERCIVE UTOPIANISM
The Church of the Secular Apocalypse: The Litany of the Long Good-bye
John Tagg

HEALTH CARE REFORM
The Canadian Prescription: Rx for Our Health Care System?
Walter W. Benjamin

IMPEDIMENTS TO THE NEW WORLD ORDER
Old World Disorders
James Clad

TV OR NOT TV?
Introduction
Editor
The Power of Television News
Joshua Meyrowitz
Notes for an Epistemology of Television
Derrick de Kerckhove
Television, Kids, and the Real Danny Kaye
David Schatzky With Leanna Verrucci
TV and Consumer Culture
Diana Owen
TV Then, TV Now: The Moral Life of Hit Programming
Josh Ozersky

 
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