Harper's Magazine: August 1989

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August 1989

CONTENTS
THUMBNAILS

	Illustration [Cover art] By Ron Miller SEE ALSO: Flowers; Mars (Planet); Space vehicles PDF IMAGES
4-7	Letters/Department Letters On Speak loudly, carry a small stick, from March 1989: Letter By William A. Baker On Our frail planet in cold, clear view, from May 1989: Letter By J.R. Fleming On Letters, from June 1989: Letter By Dan DeLorenzo Letter By William A. Baker Letter By Dan Althoff Letter By Nody Long Letter By Ralph S. Stevens III Letter By Nuri alMuhtady On Please stand by, from June 1989: Note/correction On Catching a westbound freight, from June 1989: Letter By Wade Hampton Miller On Too much, too blindly, too fast, from June 1989: Letter By Penelope W. Pi-Sunyer Letter By Walt O'Brien PDF IMAGES
8-10	Notebook/Article Nymphs and satyrs By Lewis H. Lapham SEE ALSO: Celebrities; Fame PDF IMAGES
11	Harper's index/Department Harper's index PDF IMAGES
12-15	Readings/Article Heartbreak motels By Richard Ford SEE ALSO: Motels PDF IMAGES
13	Readings/Photo Michael Thiele, conductor LIRR By Neil Winokur (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Railroad conductors PDF IMAGES
14	Readings/Cartoon Cartoon SEE ALSO: Bars (Drinking establishments); Rhinoceroses PDF IMAGES
15	Readings/Article The magnitude of this giant SEE ALSO: Book jackets; Davis, Sammy; Why me? (Book) PDF IMAGES
16	Readings/Article Mainstreaming minorities SEE ALSO: American newspapers PDF IMAGES Readings/Article My sentence-fragment thing SEE ALSO: Bush, George; Interviews PDF IMAGES
17	Readings/Article Elements of style: Sitting and eating SEE ALSO: Interviewing in journalism; Style manuals; Washington Post (American newspaper) PDF IMAGES
18-20	Readings/Article Wright was not wronged SEE ALSO: Ethics; Wright, Jim; Savings and loan associations PDF IMAGES
20-21	Readings/Article The uprising's hidden toll By Willis Johnson (Trans.) SEE ALSO: Intifada, 1987-; Israel PDF IMAGES
21	Readings/Photo [Untitled Photo] By Charles Luke Powell (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Afghanistan; Landscape; Mountains PDF IMAGES
22	Readings/Article What they learn in school By Jerome (Jerome H.) Stern SEE ALSO: Curricula PDF IMAGES Readings/Article A skateboarder's guide to unstoked parents By Bonnie Blouin SEE ALSO: Family relationships; Parent and child; Skateboarders; Teenagers PDF IMAGES
24	Readings/Article Surfing for Jesus SEE ALSO: Surfers PDF IMAGES
26-28	Readings/Article My body, myself By Paul West SEE ALSO: Cerebrovascular disease; Health; Patients; West, Paul PDF IMAGES
27	Readings/Cartoon Breakfast theory: A morning methodology SEE ALSO: Cereals, Prepared; Structuralism (Literary analysis) PDF IMAGES
28	Readings/Article Manilow misunderstood SEE ALSO: Manilow, Barry; Interviews; Public opinion—20th century; Singers PDF IMAGES Readings/Fiction Lucy and Ricky and the Mambo Kings By Oscar Hijuelos PDF IMAGES
31	Readings/Illustration Death of Nessie By Leonid Purygin SEE ALSO: Loch Ness monster PDF IMAGES
32	Readings/Article McFreud's By Mike Feder SEE ALSO: Psychotherapy PDF IMAGES
33-40	Article Life on Mars: Cultivating a planet—and ourselves By Frederick W. Turner SEE ALSO: Exploration; Life on other planets; Mars (Planet) PDF IMAGES
41-49	Fiction When I began to understand quantum mechanics By Jane Hamilton PDF IMAGES
50-57	Article A season of portents: The long summer of '88 By Gretel Ehrlich SEE ALSO: Diaries; Ehrlich, Gretel; Summer; Women authors, American; Wyoming PDF IMAGES
58-61	Article Public or purloined? Novelists' letters, biographers' rights By Frederick Busch SEE ALSO: Biography as a literary form; Novelists, American PDF IMAGES
68-71	Article The waning (and careful waxing) of a dynasty: A visit with the Marcos family By Theodore Friend SEE ALSO: Family; Family relationships; Marcos, Ferdinand E. (Ferdinand Edralin); Journeys—Philippines; Philippines; Friend, Theodore PDF IMAGES
72-76	Article Toward pure energy: My first flight in a fighter jet By Laurence Gonzales SEE ALSO: Air pilots, Military; Career as air pilot; Fighter planes; Gonzales, Laurence; Piloting PDF IMAGES
77	Double acrostic/Department No. 80 By Thomas Hazlehurst Middleton PDF IMAGES
80	Puzzle/Department Theme & variations: Lady fair By Richard Maltby and E.R. Galli PDF IMAGES