The Innocent Victim
Closed mid-May 1990 · On stands late May 1990
The Front
Field Notes
A rotating column on the small print of April — a verdict, a premiere, a single's chart week
The Dance's New Name
Madonna releases "Vogue," March 20, taking the ballroom dance's name to a national pop audience
The Essay
The Innocent Victim
What the frame around Ryan White's death, April 8, grants him that it withholds from others dying of the same disease
What the Camera Is Now Permitted
Retouching versus fabrication — the emerging ethics line for a photograph in the era of desktop image manipulation
The Foreign File
Dispatch, Held
A stringer's piece on Eastern Bloc currency reform, bumped a cycle by the well's crowding
The Feature Well
Six Felonies
Michael Milken pleads guilty to six felony counts, April, and is later sentenced to ten years
The Boardwalk He Built Himself
Trump Taj Mahal opens on the Atlantic City boardwalk, April, after a run-up of publicity its owner generated himself
The City
The Fare-Beaters
Bratton's Transit Police begin their fare-evasion, order-maintenance crackdown
The Back
A Small Screen, Slowed Down
Twin Peaks premieres on ABC, April 8, to a record television-movie audience
Trouble, Defined
Judith Butler publishes Gender Trouble
Spring Records
Short notices on the season's new releases