Forced to Say It
Closed mid-May 1992 · On stands late May 1992
The Front
Index of the Quarter
Numbers of the spring — tour dates announced, blood-drive turnout in three cities, the count of a single primary night's exit polls
The Essay
Forced to Say It
Arthur Ashe discloses his HIV status on April 8, compelled by a newspaper's imminent story rather than choosing the moment himself; read against Magic Johnson's November disclosure
The Foreign File
The Siege Begins
Shelling starts in early April as Bosnia's independence is recognized — a stringer's notes from a city not yet used to the sound
The Feature Well
The Reclamation
A profile of the landscape-architecture firm turning a former Rust Belt rail yard into a public park, the budget fights recounted in passing
The City
Subject: Bryant Park reopens April 22 after its renovation, closed since 1988 — a first afternoon on the new lawn · Focus areas: the lawn, the kiosks, the sightlines restored · Themes: what four years of closure did to a block's habits
The Back
Books: A review of the spring's sports biographies · Art: A survey of spring museum openings in Atlanta and Houston · Film: The season's pictures, and a summer blockbuster's marketing budget that now outspends the picture it's selling