October 1984
In This Issue
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Articles
The Supreme Partnership
"Would the two men ever have been passionate friends had they not been President and Prime Minister in the time of Hitler?
The Pleasures of the Plaza
Tumoresque: The Films of David Lynch
“Lynch must be one of the most unalloyed surrealists ever to work in the movies; his material seems to come to the screen straight from his unconscious, uncensored.”
Kitchen Machines
Are Blacks Better Off Today?
The Other America Revisited
Son of the Morning Star
Encounters With Chinese Writers
Hareand's Hale Acre
Stranger on the Square
Songs of the Garden
Alice Hamilton: A Life in Letters
The Weaker Vessel
A Stranger in My House: Jews and Arabs in the West Bank
The Atlantic Puzzler
Notes: Dr. Bennett's Two-Foot Shelf (And Mine)
Energy: The Economics of Contamination
Shutting down a nuclear-power plant is a risky and expensive job
Notes: Rarity
If you discover something wonderful, keep it under your hat. Let the rare stay rare
Technology: Lie Detectors
The polygraph industry is thriving, but questions remain about the validity of test results
The Week in Review: Expecting the Unexpected
. . . as we look to the future of the West Bank and Gaza, it is clear to me that peace cannot be achieved by the formation of an independent Palestinian state in those territories. Nor is it achievable on the basis of Israeli sovereignty or permanent control over the West Bank and Gaza.
Beyond Demographics
How Madison Avenue knows who you are and what you want
The Small Things That Save Us
Hawk Music
The Peacetime War
Caspar Weinberger in Reagan's Pentagon
Still Life
Seasons
I Don't Believe This
