MER
December 1990
The Republic, Rejoined
Closed mid-November 1990 · On stands late November 1990
The Front
The Saturday Ration
The Children's Television Act of 1990 becomes law, October 17, over a partial presidential objection
The Essay
The Foreign File
The Republic, Rejoined
German reunification, a year from the crossing this magazine put on its first cover of the decade
The Feature Well
The Truck in the Driveway
A feature on the first wave of luxury sport-utility vehicles moving from work truck to suburban status symbol, and what a family will now pay to look rugged
The City
The Verdict on the Perfect Moment
A Cincinnati jury acquits Dennis Barrie and the Contemporary Arts Center — the trial as a free-speech process story, the verdict, the jury, the funding stakes at issue
The Back
Year-End Notices
Short notices closing out the year's books, records, and one late film
Galley Proofs
The house parody column, unsigned since 1958, on the year now closing