October 1994
In This Issue
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Articles
His Own Jukebox
Elvis Presley's career, beginning and end, depended on his extraordinary gifts as a mimic
The Cellist
Breach
An Art Wedded to Truth
Satyajit Ray, the Indian Chekhov, typically earned $3,300 for writing, producing, directing, and composing the score for one of his limpid, masterly feature films
The Other Washington: The City of Marion Harry, Who Should Be Beyond Political Redemption
None to Accompany Me
Hidden City
The Journalist
Corelli's Mandolin
Mrs. Thatcher's Minister
Jacob Lawrence: The Migration Series
The Tribe of Tiger: Cats and Their Culture
The Puzzler
Word Watch
A selection of terms that have newly been coined, that have recently acquired new currency, or that have taken on new meanings, compiled by the executive editor of The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Third Edition.
The October Almanac
Into the Archives: A Second Look at My First Intimations of Genius
Arts & Entertainment Preview
A Right Royal Tribute
Ode to Humanity: Tokyo Strings Take Action
An American Voice Returns
The Other Otello
Trance or Dance
Straight Swing With a Swagger
Bordello Blues
Cannes Best-Seller Is Tongue in Chic
All the Producers' Men
Beached in L. A
Electronic Hash
The much-heralded recordings of Supreme Court oral arguments flagrantly distort the record
Capsule Cure: A Night in One of Japan's Kapuseru Hoteru-a Field Hospital for Trade Warriors
Oh, to Be in Antigua: This Caribbean Island Makes an Englishman Feel Right at Home
The Failure of Sex Education
“Comprehensive sex education,”mandated in seventeen states, is the educational fad of the hour, yet there is little evidence that it “works”—prevents teenage pregnancy and stanches the spread of sexually transmitted disease. Defended by its professional-class originators as “getting real" about teenage sex, it fails to speak to the grim reality of what the author calls “the new sexual revolution" among the young
745 Boylston Street
Contributors
Staying Put
The Artist
He was a father, a husband, and a video artist, who created experimental films. But he hadn’t always been any of these things, and today his past was catching up with him
Inward
Home Town: A Writer Revisits the Ohio Town Where He Grew Up
