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