Vol. 145 No. 2

COVER

Man with a Vision
An inside look at how Newt Gingrich plans to dominate Washington starting this week -- and along the way change how America works

The Network That Newt Built

NATION

Aesthetically Speaking, of Course (Chronicles)

Inside Los Angeles (Chronicles)
Our First O.J.-Related Story for 1995

Legislating (Chronicles)
Can Be Fun Ever since last August, when New York's Alfonse D'Amato, right, serenaded the U.S. Senate with his not exactly Pavarotti-ish reading of Old MacDonald Had a Farm, we've been curious about wh

Literary Quiz (Chronicles)

Michael Jackson to Wed Laura D'Andrea Tyson! (Chronicles)
Time consulted professional psychic Morris Fonte, host of Telepsychic (catch it Tuesday afternoons on New York City public-access cable TV), in order to get a preview of 1995's more astonishing develo

Mission: Not Impossible, But No Cakewalk Either (Chronicles)

New Year's Wonkin' Eve (Chronicles)

Pitiable Giant of the Week (Chronicles)

The Week December 25-31 (Chronicles)

Wrong Spy for the Job (Intelligence)
How departing CIA chief Woolsey alienated Congress and sent his own agency into a deep funk

WORLD

Anatomy of a Hijack (Algeria)
A 54-Hour Hostage Drama Ends in a 17-Minute Firefight Between Commandos and Terrorists

The Plunger: the Peso Heads South (Mexico)
Zedillo struggles to regain the faith of his people -- and the U.S.

Who's in Charge? (Russia)
As his troops stormed into the capital of Chechnya, Boris Yeltsin seemed increasingly dependent on a small circle of hard-line cronies

Why Perot Is Still Wrong (Mexico)

SCIENCE

A Double Whammy?
After the comet hit, a second jolt from volcanoes may have helped send the dinosaurs to their doom

HEALTH & MEDICINE

How to Starve a Tumor (Medicine)
New research in animals suggests that a good way to attack cancer cells may be to cut off their blood supply

SOCIETY

A Clinic Built Like a Fortress (Crime)

An Armed Fanatic Raises the Stakes (Crime)
A deadly rampage at two clinics shocks Boston and raises a national outcry over unchecked antiabortion terrorism

PRESS

Leader of the Pack
The National Enquirer's aggressive O.J. Simpson coverage raises legal and ethical questions

TECHNOLOGY

Ho, Ho, Ho, Crash!
It was a record-breaking year for holiday computer sales, but a flood of returns may be on the way

ALSO IN THIS ISSUE

On the Money
Stick with the Bouncing Bolsa

The Presidency
What the Barber Knew

Time (Contents)
Magazine contents page January 9, 1995 Vol. 145 No. 2

Time Masthead (Masthead)
January 9, 1995 -- Vol. 145, No. 2

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

Designing Congresswoman (The Arts & Media / TELEVISION)
The Clintons' best Hollywood pals set a sitcom in Washington

Drinking the Color (The Arts & Media / ART)
In his pioneering sojourn in Morocco, Delacroix learned from its vibrant hues and patterns how to evoke a living antiquity

Grossing Out (The Arts & Media / CINEMA)
Dumb and Dumber scores high with low, low comedy

Public Service (The Arts & Media / BOOKS)
Whoever killed this thriller's rotten villain did a good deed

Take a Bow, Winona (The Arts & Media / CINEMA)
The star of Little Women has graduated from spooky teen to radiant actress

What's Up with the Universe (The Arts & Media / BOOKS)
Carl Sagan surveys the news on almost everything in space

PEOPLE

The First Angry Man (Obituary)
John Osborne 1929-1994

ESSAY

A Nation Playing with Its Food