Brighton Beach, Held
Closed mid-July 1995 · On stands late July 1995
The Front
Index of July
Racketeering indictments filed nationwide this year, federal organized-crime task force budgets, advertising pages under Justice Department review — and the six-figure day rate a single supermodel now commands for one fragrance shoot
The Essay
The Picture and the Inquiry
Calvin Klein's Meisel-shot campaign draws a Justice Department investigation, examined here as a case study in how an advertising image becomes a federal question
The Foreign File
The Republics, After
Furniture on the post-Soviet economies still finding their shape
The Feature Well
The Arrest at Brighton Beach
Vyacheslav Ivankov's arrest and the organized-crime economy behind it, reported through the neighborhood it ran on
The City
Subject: A midsummer roundup of beach-town day trips from the five boroughs, briefly
The Back
Books: Review of a new book on the Russian emigre press · Art: Summer group shows outside New York, briefly, with a note on the surprising price a pop star's stage costume fetched at a charity sale · Film: Midsummer releases, house style, with a paragraph on the season's runaway soundtrack album