The Verdict, Split
Closed mid-October 1995 · On stands late October 1995
The Front
Index of October
Verdict-watch television ratings, new weekly listings publications launched this year nationwide, bases named in this year's closure round — and the opening-weekend lines outside suburban electronics stores for a Japanese console maker's first American launch
A Fifth Outlet
A front-of-book note welcoming a new weekly listings magazine to the city's crowded personals market
The Essay
The Verdict, Read Two Ways
The O.J. Simpson acquittal and the split national reaction, examined as two audiences watching the same trial and arriving at opposite readings
The Hollowing
The largest round of base closures under the Base Realignment and Closure process: 79 closures and realignments in a single year
The Foreign File
Bosnia, Before Dayton
Furniture on the diplomacy still underway
The Feature Well
The Fall Season, Won and Lost
A profile of the year's network fall-season gamble — the sitcom picked up on a bidding war and the drama benched after two episodes — read through the money changing hands on both bets
The City
Subject: An October roundup of the city's weekly listings and personals market, briefly
The Back
Books: Review of a new political-media memoir, paired with a note on the celebrity-chef cookbook currently outselling it three to one · Art: October's regional auction circuit, briefly, with a line on a pop star's guitar fetching a surprising price at a charity sale · Film: The Weekly Standard launches, funded by Rupert Murdoch and edited by William Kristol, noted here as a new voice on the opinion shelf