The Meridian Archive
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July 1994
The First Cup on Broadway

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