February 1988

Articles

• Love Triangles

  From our infantile bond with Mother through the Oedipal struggles of childhood to the temptation and pain of adultery, the play between pairings and triangles is lifelong 

  Ethel S. Person

• The February Almanac

• Notes: Cycles

  Neil Spitzer

• The Philippines: The Bases Dilemma

  The leases on our two largest overseas military installations will be up soon, and whether we should keep or quit them is not at all clear

  James Fallows

• Table of Contents

• Education: Mortal Fears

  Fergus M. Bordewich

• Washington: Media Verité

  Alan Tonelson

• Feelings: A Guide for the Step-Mom-to-Be

  Lynn Caraganis

• Contributors

• Surprise, Made in America!

• Sinking House

  T. Coraghessan Boyle

• Strange and Wonderful

  J. T. Barbarese

• The Creep

  Richard Shelton

• Charlotte Waiting Before Dying

  Leonard Wallace Robinson

• Mother and Child

  Peter Cooley

• Mule

  Rodney Jones

• Inside Glasnost

  Seweryn Bialer

• Boreas, Notus, Eurus, and Zephyrus

  Guy Billout

• A Stone's Throw: An Introduction to an Ancient Game and the Newest Olympic Event

  Cullen Murphy

• The Getting of Respect: American Chiropractors Are Stillfighting for Recognition From Medical Doctors

  Ellen Ruppel Shell

• Reclusive Conductor: Carlos Kleiber's Engagements Are Few, but They Are Keenly Anticipated

  Harvey Sachs

• Above Respectability

  Seamus Heaney

• The Drowned and the Saved

  Phoebe-Lou Adams

• A Woman Run Mad

  Phoebe-Lou Adams

• The True Gen

  Phoebe-Lou Adams

• 25 Cats Name Sam and One Blue Pussy and Holy Cats by Andy Warhol's Mother

  Phoebe-Lou Adams

• The Amundsen Photographs

  Phoebe-Lou Adams

• Chatterton

  Phoebe-Lou Adams

• The Sea Remembers

  Phoebe-Lou Adams

• A Cup of Death

  Phoebe-Lou Adams

• Acrostic No. 31

  Dorothy Osborne

• The Puzzler

  Emily Cox and Henry Rathvon

• Word Watch

  Anne H. Soukhanov

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