MER
April 1990
The Largest Failure Yet
Closed mid-March 1990 · On stands late March 1990
The Front
Field Notes
A rotating column on the small print of February — closings, openings, and a daytime game show's biggest single payout yet
The Essay
The Foreign File
Vilnius Declares
Lithuania's parliament declares independence from the Soviet Union, and Moscow's first answer to the smallest of the Baltic states
The Feature Well
What Was Owed
Drexel Burnham Lambert files Chapter 11, the largest securities-firm failure in American history to that point
The City
The Corner Newsstand's February
A service piece on where the city's newsstands source their out-of-town papers
The Back
Keith Haring, 1958–1990
The artist dies February 16
A Weekly for the Rest of Us
Entertainment Weekly launches February 16, entering the newsstand the same week
Spring Films, Previewed
Short notices on the coming season's studio slate