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August 1982

CONTENTS
THUMBNAILS

	Illustration [Cover art] By Bernard Bonhomme SEE ALSO: Reproduction PDF IMAGES
4-6	Letters/Department Letters On You can get it if you really want, from June 1982: Letter By Jim Sleeper Letter By Gilbert L. Raiford On Sugar among the freaks, from June 1982: Letter By Martha Heimberg Letter By D. Biggs Letter By Flossie Lewis Letter By Robert K. Kaynor Letter By Fletcher Eaton On All this and heaven too, from June 1982: Letter By Robert H. Feeney Letter By Sister Marguerita Smith Letter By C.L. Miller Letter By Fr. Winston F. Jensen On You're under arrest, Jane Everywoman! Why do radicals wear red suspenders?, from July 1982: Letter By Charles DeBusk On The word police, from June 1982: Letter By Jim Quinn PDF IMAGES
8-15	Washington/Article There's no shame anymore: Influence peddlers used to deny that they were selling their connections. Now they brag about it By Robert M. Kaus SEE ALSO: Lobbyists; 1981-1989; Political ethics PDF IMAGES
18-23	Capitalism observed/Article Make mine moink: Plate coverage, mouth feel, and other ingredients of modern restaurant management By Jim Quinn SEE ALSO: Cookery (Potatoes); Restaurant management PDF IMAGES
24-27	The fourth estate/Article The tedium twins: Tonight By Alexander Cockburn SEE ALSO: Career in television news anchoring; Lehrer, James; Mass media; Objectivity; MacNeil, Robert; Television broadcasting of news; Television news anchors PDF IMAGES
28-34	Article Art versus collectibles: Why museums should be filled with fakes By Edward C. Banfield SEE ALSO: Rockefeller, Nelson A. (Nelson Aldrich); Reproduction; Views on art reproductions PDF IMAGES
35-45	Article State-of-the-art panhandling: Forget about charity—extracting $350 million requires a well-oiled fund-raising machine By David Owen SEE ALSO: Alumni and alumnae; Cambridge; Charitable contributions; College graduates; Educational fund raising; Harvard University PDF IMAGES
46-53	Fiction Gertrude Stein: A story By Tova Reich PDF IMAGES
54-60	Article Speedway: People don't just go to the Indianapolis 500 looking for gore By Paul Fussell SEE ALSO: Automobile racing drivers; Automobile racing fans; Indianapolis; Indianapolis (Ind.) PDF IMAGES
61	Designs for living/Cartoon Reassurance SEE ALSO: Body image in women PDF IMAGES
62-65	Palpitations/Review Where critics go wrong: The careers of Kenneth Tynan and Otis Ferguson By James Wolcott SEE ALSO: Film critics; Tynan, Kenneth; Ferguson, Otis; The Otis Ferguson reader (Book); The sound of two hands clapping (Book); Theater critics PDF IMAGES
65-70	Books/Review Bloom, Bloom, go out the room! The final daze of academic criticism By Marvin Mudrick SEE ALSO: Critics; Bloom, Harold; New Haven; The breaking of the vessels (Book) PDF IMAGES
68	Article Negligible literary anecdotes no. 5 SEE ALSO: Humor; Addison, Joseph PDF IMAGES
70-73	Books/Review Classics by the pound: The first four volumes in the Library of America are designed to sit on your bookshelf forever By Hugh Kenner SEE ALSO: American literature; Book design; Literature publishing; Publishing PDF IMAGES
74-75	Books/Review Victor victorious: V.S. Pritchett, the grand old man of English letters By William Miller Abrahams SEE ALSO: Short stories. Selections (Book); Pritchett, V.S. (Victor Sawdon) PDF IMAGES
76	Brief reviews/Review Brief reviews By R.M. K. SEE ALSO: Capitalism; Novak, Michael; The spirit of democratic capitalism (Book) PDF IMAGES Brief reviews/Review Brief reviews By J. B. SEE ALSO: Wyatt-Brown, Bertram; Honor; Southern honor: ethics and behavior in the old South (Book); Southerners PDF IMAGES
77	Brief reviews/Review Brief reviews By H. R. SEE ALSO: Last night's stranger: one night stands & other staples of modern life (Book); Rotter, Pat; Sex in literature PDF IMAGES Brief reviews/Review Brief reviews By T. G. SEE ALSO: Wilkinson, Alec; Midnights, a year with the Wellfleet police (Book); Police PDF IMAGES
80	Puzzle/Department Clubs for clues By Richard Maltby and E.R. Galli PDF IMAGES