Monday, Oct. 14, 1991
Time Magazine Contents Page
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CINEMA: Portrait of an Artist
Actress Jodie Foster boldly crosses a new threshold: now she's a first-class film director
18
NATION: Rubbergate
Congress halts the bouncing checks, but other perks remain
34
WORLD: One Army Coup Too Many
The Western hemisphere vows to restore democracy in Haiti
42
BUSINESS: The Stubborn Slump
Beset by the '80s debt binge, the U.S. economy can't get rolling
INTERVIEW Veteran prosecutor Linda Fairstein on convicting rapists 11
RELIGION Has Christian Science embraced apostasy for $90 million?
57
EDUCATION Do poor kids deserve poor schools? 60
ENVIRONMENT Ways to restore what man has plundered 62
MEDICINE Halcion has been banned in Britain. Is the sleeping pill safe? 65
TELEVISION Now, it seems, everyone can have a talk show
79
PRESS A Young-Turk Tory takes over a once liberal magazine
82
HEALTH Don't look for the Fountain of Youth in a jar 83
MUSIC Heavy metal's raunchy rebels storm the pop charts
85
BOOKS Examining crime chronicler Joe McGinniss's techniques
86
NOBELS Nadine Gordimer talks about the role of a writer in a
repressive society 91
ESSAY Charles Krauthammer on Bush's fondness for dictators
93
DEPARTMENTS
LETTERS 4
GRAPEVINE 17
MILESTONES 65
COVER Photograph for TIME by Gregory Heisler