Monday, Oct. 10, 1994
Time
LETTERS 4
TO OUR READERS 17
CHRONICLES 19
MILESTONES 27
CONGRESS: The High Price of Gridlock 28
Voters are primed to punish Democrats for the mess
Tom Foley: The speaker falls behind at home
Ted Kennedy: Are his days numbered?
Republicans: Newt Gingrich's eyes are on the prize
THE POLITICAL INTEREST: Hope Grows in Harlem 41
Some help is finally reaching the inner cities
HAITI: Delicate Balance 42
Disorder shows how vulnerable Bill Clinton's policy is
Close Call: A reporter caught between the factions
BOSNIA: Off the Hook 49
Izetbegovic excuses Clinton from his promise on the embargo
DIPLOMACY: Nuclear Hardball 51
Pyongyang's brinkmanship threatens its talks with the U.S.
DISASTERS: The Cruel Sea 52
The ferry Estonia takes more than 900 to the bottom
BUSINESS: Devilish Derivatives 54
The exotic investments strew wreckage across the country
TRADE: What Price Asia? 61
Doing business in China means spawning imitators
IDEAS: The Ultimate Reading List 62
Harold Bloom defends his, though it's full of Dead White Males
MEDICINE: Taking Potshots at Prozac 64
Psychiatry's chief gadfly claims pills don't help the mentally ill
Voices of Hope: A radio show features recovered schizophrenics
COVER: Free at Last 66
In a brash display of cultural audacity, a new wave of African-American painters, writers, dancers and musicians sets off an exciting renaissance by laying claim to the artistic traditions of both blacks and whites
Henry Louis Gates Jr.: A leading black scholar looks back at renaissances past and finds hope for the future
THE ARTS & MEDIA
Show Business: Quentin Tarantino's enthralling Pulp Fiction combines the high octane and the highbrow 76
Theater: Show Boat just keeps rollin' along 80
Cinema: Schlock auteur Ed Wood is now a brand name 82
Albert Brooks is hilarious in The Scout
I Don't Want to Talk About It stars a beguiling Mastroianni
Books: Imperium explores the crumbling old Soviet Union
85
Walter Winchell gets a superb biography
Barry Lopez's Field Notes speaks to the denatured urbanite
Television: The real scandal is how Quiz Show treats TV
91
PEOPLE 93
ESSAY 94
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