The Meridian Archive
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March 1991
Bensonhurst, Again

Bensonhurst, Again

Closed mid-February 1991 · On stands late February 1991

The Front

The Meridian Index: February

Ash Wednesday attendance, the price of a dozen roses on the 14th, the national average heating-oil bill

On Splurging

A short column on the expense-account tab creeping upward again this winter despite a recession the headlines keep announcing

The Essay

The Foreign File

Dispatch: The Hundred Hours Begin

A stringer's notebook as the ground war opens after five weeks of air campaign — the press pool, the censors, the wait made suddenly kinetic

The Feature Well

The City

Subject: Al Sharpton is stabbed leading an anniversary march through Bensonhurst

The Back

Books: A review of a new biography of a Harlem Renaissance critic · Art: A profile of a Hollywood collector's private buying spree at the winter contemporary sales, done entirely by phone bid · Film: A dispatch on the Berlin Film Festival's American entries · Music: Jazz at Lincoln Center is founded as a funded department, Wynton Marsalis named artistic director