MER
May 1990
The Capsule on the Cover
Closed mid-April 1990 · On stands late April 1990
The Front
Field Notes
A rotating column on the small print of March — a closing, a record's surprise chart re-entry, a corrected date
The Essay
The Mainstreamed Mood
Newsweek puts a giant Prozac capsule on its cover, March 26, mainstreaming the antidepressant to a general audience
What OutWeek Named
OutWeek outs the late publisher Malcolm Forbes, March 18
The Foreign File
The First Free Vote
The coalition government seated after East Germany's first free election, and the accelerating arithmetic of reunification
The Feature Well
The City
The Corner Newsstand's March
A service piece on where the city's newsstands source their out-of-town papers
The Back
Halston, 1932–1990
The designer dies March 26
Spring Books
Short notices on the season's new fiction