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December 1985

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	Photo [Cover art] By Wilma Ervin (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Graffiti; Station wagons PDF IMAGES
4-76	Letters/Department Letters On The romance of oppression, from February 1985: Letter By Ivan Klima and George Theiner On Holding to the land, from September 1985: Letter By Fergus Rafferty On What gets said about the dead, from September 1985: Letter By H. Joseph Watts PDF IMAGES
9-10	Notebook/Article Powdered roses By Lewis H. Lapham SEE ALSO: Career as magician; Celebrities; Ferraro: my story (Book); Ferraro, Geraldine; Cagliostro, Alessandro, conte di PDF IMAGES
13	Harper's index/Department Harper's index PDF IMAGES
15-17	Readings/Article Body politic By Peter Marin SEE ALSO: Civil disobedience; Ethics; Liberty; Marginality, Social; Marin, Peter; Psychology PDF IMAGES
17	Readings/Illustration [Untitled Illustration] By Akira Kurosawa PDF IMAGES Readings/Article Twisted Sister and the senators By Albert Gore, John D. (John Davison) Rockefeller, Dee Snider, and John C. Danforth SEE ALSO: Career as rock musician; Snider, Dee; Family; Legislative hearings; Rock music PDF IMAGES
18	Readings/Cartoon Cartoon SEE ALSO: Democrats; Social values PDF IMAGES
19-20	Readings/Article Detroit: Heavy traffic ahead By Maryann Keller and Kathryn M. Welling SEE ALSO: Automobile industry and trade; Interviews; Keller, Maryann PDF IMAGES
20-22	Readings/Article Reflections of a rivethead By Ben Hamper SEE ALSO: Automobile industry workers; General Motors Corporation PDF IMAGES
22	Readings/Article How to talk small By Letitia Baldrige SEE ALSO: Business etiquette; Table-talk PDF IMAGES
24-25	Readings/Article Pro-life 'abortion clinics' SEE ALSO: Abortion; Abortion applicants; Abortion counseling; Pro-life movement PDF IMAGES
25	Readings/Photo Deer in a Black Car By James Balog (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Deer PDF IMAGES
27	Readings/Article Ethics on the nuclear battlefield By Jeffrey L. House SEE ALSO: Military ethics; Nuclear warfare; Physiological effect; Radiation; Radiation victims; Wounds and injuries PDF IMAGES Readings/Article The vanishing nuclear firebreak By Michael T. Klare SEE ALSO: Nuclear arms control; Nuclear crisis stability; Nuclear warfare; Nuclear weapons PDF IMAGES
30-32	Readings/Article The writer and unfreedom By Ivan Klima and George Theiner (Trans.) SEE ALSO: Authors, Czech; Correspondence; Czech literature; Interviews; Ivan Klima; Literature and state; Roth, Philip; Political and social views; Politics and literature PDF IMAGES
31	Readings/Cartoon Cartoon SEE ALSO: Bolivia; Class reunions; Dictators PDF IMAGES
34-35	Readings/Article Mobil's amusement and concern By Dietmar Schaefer SEE ALSO: Catalogs; Correspondence; Schaefer, Dietmar; Exhibitions; Haacke, Hans; Mobil Oil Company PDF IMAGES
35-36	Readings/Fiction Murder in the academy By W.B. Scott PDF IMAGES Readings/Poem The humble administrator's garden By Vikram Seth PDF IMAGES
36-37	Readings/Fiction Eighteen minutes By Axel Schulze and Roger C. (Roger Cecil) Norton (Trans.) PDF IMAGES
37	Readings/Article One man's meat By E.B. (Elwyn Brooks) White SEE ALSO: Human ecology; “One man's meat” (Harper's); Recycling (Waste, etc.); Waste products PDF IMAGES
39-51	Collection What is our drug problem? PDF IMAGES Article [Untitled Article] By Rudolph W. Giuliani, Ernest Van Den Haag, Mark Danner, Mark A.R. Kleiman, Arnold S. Trebach, Robert M. Stutman, Luis G. Garcia, Lester Grinspoon, and Herbert London SEE ALSO: Drug abuse; Drug traffic; Drugs of abuse; Narcotics, Control of PDF IMAGES
43	Quotation Why do people use drugs? By Thomas De Quincey PDF IMAGES
53-59	Article Waiting for Barbie: In Lyons' cobbled squares, ghosts and disquietude By Patrick Marnham SEE ALSO: Collaborationists; German occupation, 1940-1945; Barbie, Klaus; Lyons; Trials (Crimes against humanity); Trials, litigation, etc.; War crime trials PDF IMAGES
60-61	Article Poland's best and brightest: Patient liberalism in sharp focus By Lawrence Weschler SEE ALSO: Fikus, Darius; Krall, Hanna; Urban, Jerzy; Journalists; Liberalism; Rakowski, Mieczyslaw F.; Poland; Political and social views; Kapuâsciânski, Ryszard; Gornicki, Wieslaw PDF IMAGES
63-66	Fiction The compleat Xmas story By Brock Brower PDF IMAGES
68-70	Article Nakedness veiled with paint: Renoir's sweet chastity By John Berger SEE ALSO: Renoir, Auguste; Criticism and interpretation; Female nude in art PDF IMAGES
71-72	Article A cold gray glow: Television comes to the Tuscan hills By Michael D. Aeschliman SEE ALSO: Hearths; Television; Tuscany; Tuscany (Italy) PDF IMAGES
73-74	Article Machine attendant: The progress of progress By William D. Jacobson SEE ALSO: Progress; Technology and civilization PDF IMAGES
77	Double acrostic/Department No. 36 By Thomas Hazlehurst Middleton PDF IMAGES
80	Puzzle/Department And one to grow on By Richard Maltby and E.R. Galli PDF IMAGES