The Word She Chose
Closed mid-December 1995 · On stands late December 1995
The Front
Index of the Closing Year
Toys recalled, video rentals per household, the price of a bottle of Dom Pérignon at retail, households that will watch Dick Clark's Rockin' Eve
The Essay
The Argument for Slow News
What a monthly can know that a nightly broadcast cannot yet — the case for arriving after the fact on purpose
The Foreign File
What the Princess Said
The Princess of Wales tells the BBC's Panorama she hurt her own arms and legs; the phrase 'self-harm' enters American copy within the month
The Feature Well
The Last of the Elevator Men
A profile of the operators still working manual cages in prewar office towers in Chicago's Loop, downtown Pittsburgh, and Philadelphia
The Sentence That Isn't Yours
Felix Wendt's pitch, greenlit by Nora: profiles of writers who came to English as adults — the discipline of a chosen language, a season before the subject becomes a familiar one
The City
Subject: Holiday retail on Fifth Avenue against a mild recession hangover
The Back
A Toy Box Made of Light
Toy Story, the first fully computer-animated feature, opens at the El Capitan Theatre