The Majority Makers
Closed mid-December 1994 · On stands late December 1994
The Front
Index of the Turnover
New numbers on the incoming Congress — freshman class size, committee gavels changing hands — set beside the season's other turnover: the biggest holiday box office in five years, and the price a first-run Beanie Baby is already fetching above retail on the collectors' circuit
The Essay
The Majority Makers
The incoming Republican freshman class names a radio host an honorary member of its caucus; what it means for a party to thank a broadcaster
The Foreign File
Sarajevo, Third Winter
A ceasefire holds badly; furniture, not news
The Feature Well
The Bonus Pool
The year's record Wall Street bonus pool, profiled through what it bought — an Aspen second home closed in escrow by January, a chef's tasting menu block-booked through spring, a private art advisor's busiest December in a decade
The City
Subject: A weekly column on single life downtown debuts in the New York Observer, profiled here as a phenomenon of the paper
The Back
Books: Review of a new biography of Dorothy Parker · Art: A roundup of January gallery and museum openings in Chicago, Los Angeles, and Houston, briefly · Film: Year-end ten-best list, house style, opening this year on the conspicuous case of a small independent picture that outgrossed the studios' own Christmas tentpoles