One Hundred Dollars
Closed mid-May 1991 · On stands late May 1991
The Front
The Thigh, Mastered
The ThighMaster infomercial with Suzanne Somers debuts
Friends and Family
MCI launches the Friends & Family calling-circle discount, opening the long-distance carrier wars
The Essay
The Foreign File
The Camps at the Border
A short dispatch on the Kurdish refugee columns still massed along the Turkish and Iranian frontiers weeks after fleeing the failed uprising, aid flights landing faster than tents can go up
The Feature Well
The City
Subject: Residential building workers strike for twelve days, tenants left to sort their own mail and doors
The Hundred-Dollar Seat
Miss Saigon opens with the first $100 Broadway ticket
The Back
Books: A short-story excerpt from a debut New Orleans novelist · Art: A short piece on the summer's celebrity-endorsed jewelry lines, movie stars lending their names to department-store cases · Film: A review of the summer preview slate