The Quilt on the Mall
Closed mid-November 1992 · On stands late November 1992
The Front
The Quilt on the Mall
The AIDS Memorial Quilt's full display covers the National Mall in October — the count, at this size, becomes its own argument
Index of the Quarter
Numbers of the autumn — panels added to the quilt this year, tickets sold, letters to network standards departments
The Essay
The Torn Photograph
Sinéad O'Connor tears up a photograph of the Pope live on Saturday Night Live on October 3 — what a single televised gesture is asked to carry, and what it can't
The Foreign File
The Convoy
A UN aid convoy waits out sniper fire on the airport road — a short dispatch told in overheard fragments
The Feature Well
The Quilters
A profile of a sewing circle that has made panels for three years running, told through one afternoon's work
The City
Subject: A November evening at a Chelsea gallery opening, the season's usual crowd
The Back
Books: A review of the autumn's essay collections · Art: A survey of autumn museum openings in Fort Worth and Seattle · Film: The season's pictures, and a network's Thanksgiving miniseries drawing the kind of numbers a theatrical release no longer can