The Hollowing
Closed mid-February 1992 · On stands late February 1992
The Front
Index of the Quarter
Numbers of the closings — plants, towns named, severance weeks offered, and the price of a Super Bowl ad the same week a shift got its notice
The Essay
The Hollowing
General Motors announces 21 plant closures and 74,000 jobs cut in December; what the number does to the towns it names and the ones it doesn't
The Foreign File
The Embassy Party Circuit, Winter
A season of receptions read for what they signal about who is losing patience with whom
The Feature Well
The Loan Officer
A profile of a small-town bank manager deciding, quietly, which businesses survive the winter
The Second Act
A profile of a country singer's crossover year — the pop chart, the perfume line, the tour bus economics that make a comeback pay
The City
Subject: A Sunday afternoon at an uptown framing shop, the season's business
The Back
Books: A review of the winter's business-history titles · Art: A Chicago museum's blockbuster loan show pulls the season's ticket lines out of New York for once · Film: The season's serious pictures, and the box-office surprise nobody in the trade press predicted · Obituary: Tina Chow dies January 24, complicating an industry's assumptions about how transmission happens