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January 1986

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	Photo [Cover art] By William Albert Allard (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Horsemanship; Ranchers PDF IMAGES
4-76	Letters/Department Letters On The temple of boredom, from October 1985: Letter By Dennis Livingston Letter By George Zebrowski Letter By Gregory Benford Letter By Jeffrey A. Carver Letter By Richard D. Simms Letter By Thomas S. Acton Letter By Mark D. Weiner Letter By John Eric Noran Letter By Bruce McAllister Letter By Patrick J. O'Connor Letter By Nelsonna Norvak Letter By George H. Scithers Letter By David Cellars Letter By Luc Sante PDF IMAGES
12-13	Notebook/Article Noises off By Lewis H. Lapham SEE ALSO: Affluent consumers; Anniversaries, etc.; Cost and standard of living; Foreign public opinion; United Nations PDF IMAGES
15	Harper's index/Department Harper's index PDF IMAGES
16-18	Readings/Article Beirut elegy By Edward W. Said SEE ALSO: Beirut; Lebanon; 1946-; Palestinian Arabs PDF IMAGES
17	Readings/Cartoon Cartoon SEE ALSO: 1981-1993; Public welfare PDF IMAGES
18-19	Readings/Article Media courtesans By Ted Koppel SEE ALSO: Mass media; Television news anchors PDF IMAGES
19-20	Readings/Article Not the Royal Canadians SEE ALSO: Performances; Trials, litigation, etc.; Lombardo, William PDF IMAGES Readings/Article Prisoners' progress SEE ALSO: Juvenile delinquency; Life change events; Prisoners; -Statistics PDF IMAGES
20	Readings/Article Who was Marx Square named after? SEE ALSO: Budapest; Hungary; Marx, Karl; Name; Public opinion PDF IMAGES
22	Readings/Cartoon Cartoon SEE ALSO: Fads; Identity (Psychology) PDF IMAGES Readings/Article Are you bitch enough? By Anne Burford and John Greenya SEE ALSO: Burford, Anne; Ethics; Friends and associates; Officials and employees; Relations with employees; Lavelle, Rita M.; Selection and appointment; United States. Environmental Protection Agency PDF IMAGES
23-24	Readings/Article Gandhi in the West Bank By Mubarak E. Awad SEE ALSO: Arab-Israeli conflict; Gaza Strip; Israel; Palestinian Arabs; Passive resistance; West Bank PDF IMAGES Readings/Article A change of race By Roger Omond SEE ALSO: Apartheid; Ethnology; Race; South Africa PDF IMAGES
24	Readings/Illustration Refugee landscape SEE ALSO: Children's drawings; Guatemala; Refugee children; Refugees, Political PDF IMAGES Readings/Article Beyond the call SEE ALSO: Game wardens; South Africa; Wounds and injuries PDF IMAGES
26	Readings/Cartoon Italy's post-modern comics SEE ALSO: City and town life; Forecasts PDF IMAGES Readings/Article Anatomy of a pitch By Lynda Rosen Obst SEE ALSO: Motion picture industry; Motion picture plays; Motion picture producers and directors; Screenwriters PDF IMAGES
30	Readings/Illustration Four black men By Leon Golub SEE ALSO: Blacks; Men; South Africa PDF IMAGES Readings/Article The white bird By John Berger SEE ALSO: Folk art; Nature (Aesthetics) PDF IMAGES
31	Readings/Poem Preparation By Czeslaw Milosz PDF IMAGES
32	Readings/Photo [Untitled Photo] SEE ALSO: Ocean; Remote-sensing images PDF IMAGES
33-34	Readings/Article Ode to an orange By Larry Woiwode SEE ALSO: Childhood and youth; Woiwode, Larry; North Dakota; Orange PDF IMAGES
34-36	Readings/Fiction The symbol By Virginia Woolf PDF IMAGES
37-50	Article [Untitled Article] By Lewis H. Lapham, John J. Gross, William F. (William Frank) Buckley, Mark Crispin Miller, Liz Smith, Barbara Howar, and Robert Darnton SEE ALSO: Howar, Barbara; Celebrities; Gossip; Gossip in mass media; Gross, John J.; Lapham, Lewis H.; Smith, Liz; Miller, Mark Crispin; Portraits; Darnton, Robert; Statesmen; Buckley, William F. (William Frank) PDF IMAGES Collection Gossiping about gossip PDF IMAGES
43	Quotation Rhapsodies of the rich and famous By G.K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton SEE ALSO: Flattery; Rich people PDF IMAGES
51-55	Article Even the bad guys wear white hats: Cowboys, ranchers, and the ruin of the West By Edward Abbey SEE ALSO: Cattle; Cattle trade; Cowboys; Environmental aspects; Government policy; Ranchers; Range policy PDF IMAGES
56-63	Article Guatemalan death masque: Pomp and terror in a dark country By Francisco Goldman SEE ALSO: Beauty contests; Guatemala; Indians of Central America; 1945-1985 PDF IMAGES
65-68	Article One hundred years on a raft: A dirty word with the Huck Finn critics By Charles Nicol SEE ALSO: Congresses; Criticism and interpretation; Huck Finn among the critics: a centennial selection (Book); Crowley, J. Donald (Joseph Donald); Seelye, John D.; Wallace, John H.; Inge, M. Thomas; Twain, Mark; One hundred years of Huckleberry Finn (Book); Sattelmeyer, Robert; “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” adapted (Book); The adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Book); The true adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Book) PDF IMAGES
70-71	Article Buying and selling the TV viewer: Prime time and the big picture By Les Brown SEE ALSO: A.C. Neilson Company; Rating; Television programs; Television viewers PDF IMAGES
72-73	Article Dying argots: Last call for screechie, shandy, and the sneeze mob By Edward Hoagland SEE ALSO: Lewis, Arthur H.; Ballantine, Bill; Carnival (Book); Carnivals; Circus; Circus workers; Language & Linguistics; Loggers; Lumber trade; Pike, Robert E. (Robert Everding); Tall trees, tough men (Book); Wild tigers & tame fleas (Book) PDF IMAGES
77	Double acrostic/Department No. 37 By Thomas Hazlehurst Middleton PDF IMAGES
80	Puzzle/Department Misprints By Richard Maltby and E.R. Galli PDF IMAGES