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April 14, 1997 Issue - 20 Articles- Comment: Box Score
Roger Angell
, pp. 5-7 What would Jackie Robinson think of baseball now?
- The Mail, pp. 8-9
- Goings on About Town, pp. 10-30
- The Talk of the Town, pp. 31-33
Six ways of approaching Heaven's Gate
- Annals of Parenthood: Making the Grade
James Atlas
, pp. 34-39 New York's private schools: keeping busy parents a whole lot busier
- Our Far-Flung Correspondents: Mr. Kurtz, I Presume
Adam Hochschild
, pp. 40-41 The forgotten tyrants of Zaire, and what Joseph Conrad might have made of them
- Fenceposts"
Eamon Grennan
, pp. 42-47 - A Reporter at Large: American Guanxi
Peter J. Boyer
, pp. 48-49 How a politicking couple from Hawaii used it to get to the Democrats
- "The Miller's Daughter"
Paul Jenkins
, pp. 50-57 - At the Galleries
Lee Lorenz
, pp. 58-61 Mary Petty
- Profile: The Time of Her Life
Nancy Franklin
, pp. 62-71 In her new play, Wendy Wasserstein goes way beyond the personal---to the political
- Album: American Gals
Bill Blass
, pp. 72-75 - Fiction: "Honeymoon"
Kevin Canty
, pp. 76-77 A Montana romance in 1974
The Critics
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Wine, Women, and John (Review) Victoria Glendinning
, pp. 78-81 Augustus John, by Michael Holroyd
- Augustus John by Michael Holroyd
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Eat, Drink, and Be Wary (Review) Oliver Sacks
, pp. 82-84 Deadly Feasts, by Richard Rhodes
- Deadly Feasts by Richard Rhodes
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Briefly Noted (5 Reviews) , p. 85 Hallucinating Foucault, by Patricia Duncker
- Hallucinating Foucault by Patricia Duncker
- Hungry Ghosts by Jasper Becker
- In the Country of Country by Nicholas Dawidoff
- Blue Windows by Barbara Wilson
- With a Moon in Transit by Jacqueline Osherow
- The Theater
John Lahr
, pp. 86-87 "A Doll's House," "The Young Man from Atlanta"
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The Current Cinema (2 Reviews) Anthony Lane
, pp. 88-89 Holy Fools
- The Saint (1997 Film) by Phillip Noyce
- Paradise Road (1997 Film) by Bruce Beresford
- Shouts & Murmers
Bruce McCall
, pp. 90-92 Avoid That Sinking Feeling
- Cover: Fashion Hangup
Lawrence Mynott
