Harper's Magazine: August 1990

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August 1990

CONTENTS
THUMBNAILS

	Readings/Article Belushi and the Albanian dream By Abaz Hoxha SEE ALSO: Career in entertainment; Belushi, John
	Photo [Cover art] By Barry Marcus (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Canoes and canoeing PDF IMAGES
4-8	Letters/Department Letters On From the mouths of babes to a jail cell, from May 1990: Note/correction Note/correction Note/correction Note/correction Note/correction Letter By "The Staff, Children's Charter, and Inc." Letter By Bill France Letter By Teresa Whitehurst Letter By Judge Charles B. Schudson Letter By “Name Withheld Upon Request” PDF IMAGES
9-11	Notebook/Article Sermons and soda water By Lewis H. Lapham SEE ALSO: Health attitudes; Public health PDF IMAGES
13	Harper's index/Department Harper's index PDF IMAGES
17	Readings/Article Inside Qin Cheng Prison SEE ALSO: Prisoners PDF IMAGES
19	Readings/Cartoon Things are not looking good for Gorby SEE ALSO: Caricatures and cartoons; Gorbachev, Mikhail Sergeevich PDF IMAGES Readings/Article Learning a new party line By Miklós Vámos SEE ALSO: Hungarians; Visitors, Foreign PDF IMAGES
20	Readings/Article Zeitgeist Barbie PDF IMAGES
21	Readings/Article There's a riot at the mint! By Major Owens SEE ALSO: Rap (Music); Savings and Loan Bailout, 1989- PDF IMAGES Readings/Cartoon Metaphysical fun park SEE ALSO: Metaphysics PDF IMAGES
22	Readings/Article The last food trend SEE ALSO: Career as chef; Game and game-birds; Nathan, Jeffrey; Menus PDF IMAGES Readings/Article The thrill of poverty By Tom Monaghan SEE ALSO: Basic needs; Poor; Speeches, addresses, etc., American PDF IMAGES
25-26	Readings/Article Hudson Bay of Pigs? By Floyd W. Rudmin SEE ALSO: 1989- PDF IMAGES Readings/Article Putting Fido down By Bruce Fogle and David Abrahamson SEE ALSO: Euthanasia of animals; Veterinarians PDF IMAGES
26-28	Readings/Article Anti-Semitism and the new Europe By Ian Buruma SEE ALSO: Antisemitism; Nationalism PDF IMAGES
27	Readings/Photo [Untitled Photo] By Carlos Peréz Siquier (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Andalusia; Beaches PDF IMAGES
29	Readings/Article Fear of music By David Koen SEE ALSO: Arizona; McCarroll, David; Gillespie, Jerry; Higuera, Jesus; Hendman, Kyle; Corbet, Leo; Music trade; Views on music PDF IMAGES
30	Readings/Illustration [Untitled Illustration] By Jana Sterbak SEE ALSO: Fashion and art; Meat PDF IMAGES Readings/Article Fear of music II SEE ALSO: Catalogs; Sound recording industry PDF IMAGES
31-32	Readings/Article A screenplay in the megacoin mold SEE ALSO: Career in screenwriting; Motion pictures; Plots, themes, etc.; Screenwriters; Black, Shane; The last boy scout (Motion picture) PDF IMAGES Readings/Article Say it with liposuction SEE ALSO: Costs; Surgery, Plastic PDF IMAGES
32	Readings/Article Road worrier: Mel Gibson on Hamlet By John Lahr SEE ALSO: Gibson, Mel; Views on Hamlet PDF IMAGES
34	Readings/Poem Observations and experiments By Annie Dillard SEE ALSO: Dale, Alan; Natural history; Observations and experiments in natural history (Book) PDF IMAGES
35	Readings/Photo Peach nail polish By Jay Bender (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Leg; Photography, Pinhole PDF IMAGES Readings/Fiction In search of the indispensable By Giorgio Manganelli and John Satriano (Trans.) PDF IMAGES
36	Readings/Article The wonder years By Hugh Gallagher SEE ALSO: College applications PDF IMAGES Readings/Article Fawn Hall's laptop By Mark McIntire SEE ALSO: Hall, Fawn; Laptop computers; Views on laptop computers PDF IMAGES
38	Readings/Illustration [Untitled Illustration] SEE ALSO: Integrated circuits PDF IMAGES
39	Readings/Poem Edward's anecdote By Donald Hall SEE ALSO: Adultery PDF IMAGES Readings/Article On getting one's footing By Edward Hoagland SEE ALSO: Hoagland, Edward; Philosophy PDF IMAGES
41-48	Article The stirrings of history: A new world rises from the ruins of empire By John Lukacs SEE ALSO: History, Modern; Nationalism; World politics PDF IMAGES
49-57	Fiction Death by landscape By Margaret Eleanor Atwood SEE ALSO: Camps; Friendship PDF IMAGES
58-59	Article Cracking the electronic whip: Meet the new boss By Sharon Danann SEE ALSO: Effect of technological innovations on; Rating of PDF IMAGES
66-67	Article Winged: The creatures on my mind By Ursula K. Le Guin SEE ALSO: Beetles; Gulls; Sparrows PDF IMAGES
68-78	Article Borderline cases: The violent passage across the Rio Grande By Earl Shorris SEE ALSO: Emigration and immigration; Government policy; Immigrants; Mexican-American Border Region PDF IMAGES
79	Double acrostic/Department No. 92 By Thomas Hazlehurst Middleton PDF IMAGES
80	Puzzle/Department Bee hive By Richard Maltby and E.R. Galli PDF IMAGES