The Look and the Death Behind It
Closed mid-June 1997 · On stands late June 1997
The Front
The President's Remarks
President Clinton condemns 'heroin chic' fashion imagery in an address to the U.S. Conference of Mayors
The Meridian Index: July
Fireworks-permit applications filed with small-town fire marshals, the average price of a lakeside cottage rental, sunscreen sales nationwide since Memorial Day
The Bookstore With No Store
An online retailer that sells nothing but books goes public in May at a valuation the business desk has to explain twice; there is no shelf, no clerk, no lease — the piece admits, a beat late, that it doesn't yet have a vocabulary for a company like this. Assigned on Dez Washington's memo arguing the desk stop treating the thing as a curiosity and start treating it as an industry
The Essay
The Foreign File
The Flag Comes Down
Final preparations proceed for the handover of Hong Kong from British to Chinese sovereignty, set for July 1st
The Feature Well
The Silence Breaks
Davide Sorrenti's death and President Clinton's condemnation force the fashion industry to answer for the heroin-chic look it had defended as aesthetics
The City
The Back
The Fortune That Wasn't
Roseanne closes its run revealing the family's fortune as a fiction the whole season had been