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November 1987

CONTENTS
THUMBNAILS

	Illustration Various cakes, 1981 By Wayne Thiebaud SEE ALSO: Cake PDF IMAGES
4-8	Letters/Department Letters On A new and awful silence. Serious music is losing its measure, from July 1987: Letter By Sam Braudt Letter By Mark Rennella Letter By Mik Dietlin On Games people play. Power, ideology, and other Beltway hobbies, from July 1987: Letter By Michael Passariello Letter By Mary Ellen Reese Letter By Dana Rohrabacher Letter By Sondra Gotlieb On Mark Twain on the safest sex, from October 1987: Letter By Jane Williamson PDF IMAGES
12-13	Notebook/Article Potomac fever By Lewis H. Lapham SEE ALSO: Political ethics; Political leadership PDF IMAGES
17	Harper's index/Department Harper's index PDF IMAGES
19-20	Readings/Article Gorbachev: The great counter-reformer By Adam Michnik, Pat Hunt (Trans.), and Jonathan Koziol (Trans.) SEE ALSO: Foreign public opinion, Polish; Glasnost; Gorbachev, Mikhail Sergeevich; 1985-1991; 1986-1991; Perestroika; Poland; Political and social views PDF IMAGES
21	Readings/Cartoon Cartoon SEE ALSO: Foreign public opinion, American; Iran PDF IMAGES Readings/Article Praise Madison and pass the ammunition SEE ALSO: Firearms; United States Constitution Bicentennial, 1987-1991 PDF IMAGES
24	Readings/Article Cutting it in kindergarten By Keith Osborn SEE ALSO: Kindergarten PDF IMAGES Readings/Article One question By Mark Salzman SEE ALSO: Journeys—China—Hunan Province—Anecdotes; Salzman, Mark; Priests, Buddhist; Public opinion, Chinese—Anecdotes; Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous) PDF IMAGES
26	Readings/Graphs and Charts Charting the U.S. economy By Dennis Livingston SEE ALSO: Charts, diagrams, etc.; 1981- PDF IMAGES
27	Readings/Article Regan and the rug merchants By Alan Furman SEE ALSO: Furman, Alan; Correspondence; Regan, Donald; Merchants PDF IMAGES Readings/Drama Revising Lenin's legacy By Fedor Mikhaæilovich Burlaëtìskiæi PDF IMAGES
28	Readings/Article “Who's had who” By Richard Curtis, Susan Bell, and Helen Fielding SEE ALSO: Celebrities; Couples; Sex; Sexual behavior PDF IMAGES
30	Readings/Cartoon Cartoon SEE ALSO: Foreign public opinion, American; National characteristics, Russian PDF IMAGES Readings/Article Arab walls, reflecting change By Anton Shammas and Yael Lotan (Trans.) SEE ALSO: Dwellings; Interior decoration; Israel; Palestine; Palestinian Arabs PDF IMAGES
34	Readings/Collection Readings By Bill Burke (Photog.) PDF IMAGES Readings/Photo [Untitled Photo] By Bill Burke (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Cambodia; Khmer People's National Liberation Front PDF IMAGES Readings/Photo [Untitled Photo] By Bill Burke (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Cambodia; Khmer Rouge PDF IMAGES
35-38	Readings/Article Beijing's popcorn entrepreneur SEE ALSO: Beijing; Poor teenagers; Teenagers PDF IMAGES
38-40	Readings/Poem Prophecy By Donald Hall PDF IMAGES
40-41	Readings/Article Short stories: Weapons of pessimists By Daniel Boulanger, Penny Million Pucelik (Trans.), and Marijo Despréaux Schneider (Trans.) SEE ALSO: Short story PDF IMAGES
41-42	Readings/Fiction Toussaint By Ronald F. Turner PDF IMAGES
43-50	Collection You can have it all! Seven campaigns for deadly sin PDF IMAGES Article [Untitled Article] By Lewis H. Lapham SEE ALSO: Deadly sins PDF IMAGES
44	Illustration Gluttony By Jarl Olson, Mike Lescarbeau, and Dean Hanson SEE ALSO: Gluttony; Overweight persons PDF IMAGES
45	Illustration Avarice By Mike Hughes, Hal Tench, and Jim Erickson (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Avarice; Santa Claus PDF IMAGES
46	Illustration Envy By Patrick Cunningham and Keith Gould SEE ALSO: Envy PDF IMAGES
47	Illustration Wrath By Jeff Frye SEE ALSO: Hitler, Adolf; Anger; Portraits; Protest movements; World War II, 1914-1918 PDF IMAGES
48	Illustration Sloth By Chuck Hoffman and Jean Marcellino SEE ALSO: Laziness; Paradise PDF IMAGES
49	Illustration Pride By Jim Nolan and Carrie Wieseneck SEE ALSO: Pride and vanity PDF IMAGES
50	Illustration Lust By Evert Cilliers and Geoff Hayes SEE ALSO: Couples; Lust PDF IMAGES
51-57	Article Cupcake land. Requiem for the Midwest in the key of vanilla By Richard Rhodes SEE ALSO: City and town life; Conformity; Conservatism; Homes and haunts—Missouri—Kansas City; Kansas City; Kansas City (Mo.); Middle West; Midwesterners; Rhodes, Richard PDF IMAGES
58-59	Article And now, for something cheap. What's coming up and going down at PBS By Jack Hitt SEE ALSO: Public television; Television programs PDF IMAGES
61-68	Fiction Absence of mercy By Robert Stone PDF IMAGES
71-76	Article Where money has little currency. Travels in East Germany By Hans Koning SEE ALSO: Germany (East); Koning, Hans; Journeys—Germany (East) PDF IMAGES
77	Double acrostic/Department No. 59 By Thomas Hazlehurst Middleton PDF IMAGES
80	Puzzle/Department Jigsaw By Richard Maltby and E.R. Galli PDF IMAGES