The Meridian Archive
MER
August 1995
Brighton Beach, Held

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