The Door Marked Diversity
Closed mid-December 1990 · On stands late December 1990
The Front
The Pope of Pot, Deposed
A small entrepreneurship item on Michael 'Micky' Cesar's bicycle-delivery marijuana service, raided in November — the toll-free number, the fleet, the owner's own patter, product and number left unprinted
Justify, Pulled
MTV pulls Madonna's 'Justify My Love' video days after its December premiere, citing content; the single's own sales chart afterward suggests millions saw it anyway
The Champagne Downgrade
Domestic sparkling-wine sales climb as the recession trims imported cases at the register — this Christmas's toast quietly a notch cheaper than last year's
The Essay
The Quiet Law
The Immigration Act of 1990 and its Diversity Visa lottery, read for the post-Soviet effect already visible in Brighton Beach and Greenpoint
The Foreign File
Dispatch: The Sand Waits
A stringer's notebook from the Saudi staging grounds as the UN's January 15 deadline approaches — tank convoys, chaplains, letters home, a war not yet begun
The Feature Well
The House That Donna Built
A profile of Donna Karan's label reaching department-store racks nationally, the body-conscious basics becoming a business rather than a runway idea
The City
Subject: The CFDA stages the first Seventh on Sale, an AIDS benefit built as a discount sample sale
The Back
Books: A review essay on the year's memoirs of departure and arrival · Art: [object Object] · Film: A review of Dances with Wolves, the season's runaway box-office and awards-season story · Television: [object Object]