June 1993
In This Issue
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Articles
Wrought Figure
How Garbage Could Meet Its Maker
The management of garbage has for a century been largely a public responsibility, its cost borne by taxpayers. Now garbage disposal is busting budgets in communities across the country, [here is a better way—one that would shift responsibility to manufacturers and consumers, and dramatically promote recycling in the process
The Other Catskills: A Convenient and Historic Place to Go Backpacking Near New York City
An Artist of American Violence
Shakespeare's Most Riddling Creation
Reading and Writing
The Days of the Consuls
Broadcast Blues
Misreadings
Puligny-Montrachet
Incidents of Travel in Central America, Chiapas, and Yucatan
A Suitable Boy
The Porcelain Dove
The Puzzler
Word Watch
A selection of terms that have newly been coined, that have recently acquired new currency, or that have taken on new meanings, compiled by the executive editor of’The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Third Edition.
Notes: Last Position Held: A Brief Résumé
Washington: Housebreaker
Newt Gingrich, who has been accused of trying to destroy the House of Representatives in the name of saving it, is now poised to take on Bill Clinton
O'Er the Ramparts We Watched
Land of 1.000 Dances
Playwrights' Bazaar
Film Studies
And Now... The Readers' Choice Awards
Orlando Will Be Hot This Summer
Much Ado
Funky Cures for the Summertime Blues
Even Zevon
The Fastest Man Alive
Rippin' Van Winkle
Set for Action
Toscanini's Air Apparent
Celebrating Strauss
Anything Goes
Malaysia: Rotten Royals
A meek country is finally turning on its corrupt, pampered sultans—but at the same time, its headstrong reformist Prime Minister is turning on the United States, at least rhetorically
The Persian Gulf: Still Mired
Ever dependent on cheap oil, the United States continues its meddlesome Gulf policy, which is based on an inaccurate picture of tangled Gulf politics
Re-Hearing Bernstein
A brilliant talent dissipated in exhibitionistic self-indulgence? The standard critical view of Leonard Bernstein must be revised or reversed, a composer finds on listening afresh to Bernstein's work as a conductor, as a composer, and—especially—as a teacher
Contributors
Scarifying
No-Phone Homes
DMZ
His father had told him that one day he would wake up in the morning, look at his wife on the other side of the bed, and wonder what he was doing there
The Little Book of Hand Shadows
