The First Cup on Broadway
Closed mid-June 1994 · On stands late June 1994
The Front
One Bottle for Everyone
Calvin Klein launches CK One, the first unisex fragrance to reach mass popularity
The Meridian Index
June's small numbers — Father's Day tie sales, the average wait for a lake-house rental deposit to clear, the price of a window air conditioner before the first heat wave
The Essay
The Book That Renames Everything
The American Psychiatric Association's DSM-IV and the quiet cultural work a diagnostic manual does beyond any clinic
The Foreign File
The Peace That Holds by the Hour
A dispatch on a ceasefire nobody yet trusts enough to call by that name in print
The Republic That Hasn't Announced Itself Yet
Tomás Vega's dispatch on Chechnya's quiet slide toward a war neither Moscow nor Washington is yet calling one — pitched by Vega himself over the foreign desk's mild skepticism
The Feature Well
The Manual
A reported piece on the corporate playbook behind a coffee chain's expansion east, read as a franchise-culture story rather than a coffee story
The City
Subject: The first Starbucks opens in Manhattan, at Broadway and 87th Street
The Back
Books: A review of the summer's clinical and popular-psychology titles, filed alongside the DSM-IV essay · Art: A notice on the season's regional-museum closings ahead of August · Film: A dispatch on the summer's crop of counterprogrammed art-house releases