1985 | Harper's Magazine

Machine attendant

by William D. Jacobson,

The progress of progress

A cold gray glow

by Michael D. Aeschliman,

Television comes to the Tuscan hills

Nakedness veiled with paint

by John Berger,

Renoir's sweet chastity

Poland’s best and brightest

by Lawrence Weschler,

Patient liberalism in sharp focus

Waiting for Barbie

by Patrick Marnham,

In Lyons' cobbled squares, ghosts and disquietude

Untitled

by Mark Danner, Mark A.R. Kleiman, Arnold S. Trebach, Robert M. Stutman, Rudolph W. Giuliani, Luis G. Garcia, Lester Grinspoon, Herbert London,

Eighteen minutes

by Axel Schulze,Translated by Roger C. (Roger Cecil) Norton,

The humble administrator’s garden

by Vikram Seth,

The writer and unfreedom

by Ivan Klima,Translated by George Theiner,

The vanishing nuclear firebreak

by Michael T. Klare,

Ethics on the nuclear battlefield

by Jeffrey L. House,

Excerpted from “How to Start and Operate a Pro-Life Out-Reach Pregnancy Service Center,” a manual prepared and distributed by the Pearson Foundation, an anti-abortion group. Many anti-abortion activists have set…

How to talk small

by Letitia Baldrige,

Reflections of a rivethead

by Ben Hamper,

Detroit

by Maryann Keller, Kathryn M. Welling,

Heavy traffic ahead

Readings

Drawn by Bill Plympton,

Twisted Sister and the senators

by Dee Snider, John C. Danforth, John D. (John Davison) Rockefeller,

Readings

Art by Akira Kurosawa,

Body politic

by Peter Marin,

Harper’s index

by Harper’s Staff,

Archive: 1985

And one to grow on

No. 36

Machine attendant

A cold gray glow

Nakedness veiled with paint

The compleat Xmas story

Poland’s best and brightest

Waiting for Barbie

Why do people use drugs?

Untitled

What is our drug problem?

One man’s meat

Eighteen minutes

Murder in the academy

The humble administrator’s garden

Mobil’s amusement and concern

Readings

The writer and unfreedom

The vanishing nuclear firebreak

Ethics on the nuclear battlefield

Deer in a Black Car

Pro-Life ‘Abortion Clinics’

How to talk small

Reflections of a rivethead

Detroit

Readings

Twisted Sister and the senators

Readings

Body politic

Harper’s index

Archive: 1985

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And one to grow on

No. 36

Machine attendant

A cold gray glow

Nakedness veiled with paint

The compleat Xmas story

Poland’s best and brightest

Waiting for Barbie

Why do people use drugs?

Untitled

What is our drug problem?

One man’s meat

Eighteen minutes

Murder in the academy

The humble administrator’s garden

Mobil’s amusement and concern

Readings

The writer and unfreedom

The vanishing nuclear firebreak

Ethics on the nuclear battlefield

Deer in a Black Car

Pro-Life ‘Abortion Clinics’

How to talk small

Reflections of a rivethead

Detroit

Readings

Twisted Sister and the senators

Readings

Body politic

Harper’s index

December 1985

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