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August 1983 Issue - 18 Articles- Letters, pp. 4-5
- Quandaries: State of Anxiety
Anthony DePalma
, pp. 6-13 New Jersey's cancer culture
- Politics: First, Forget the Issues
Robert M. Kaus
, pp. 14-22 How to size up presidential candidates
- Harper's Journal, pp. 23-25
About signs, synfuels, and ninety-six dunces
- Good Intentions: The Relentless Rise of Anne Wexler
David Owen
, pp. 26-34 How she became Washington's Rolodex queen
- Designs for Living
Posy Simmonds
, p. 35 Food for thought
- Of Mice and Yen
Murray Sayle
, pp. 36-41 Welcome to Tokyo Disneyland, where we sell the Japanese their fantasy of America
- Inside Epcot Center
P.J. O'Rourke
, pp. 42-45 - Sugar Among the Chickens
Lewis Norden
, pp. 46-53 A story
- Bosses
James Raimes
, pp. 54-61 Cautionary tales for the modern employee
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Palpitations: Mooing in the Meadows of Love (4 Reviews) James Wolcott
, pp. 62-65 Confessional novels that give real life a bad name
- How He Saved Her by Ellen Schwamm
- Alexandra Freed by Lisa Zeidner
- Beautiful Women, Ugly Scenes by C.D.B. Bryan
- Heartburn by Nora Ephron
- Art: Eye of the Beholder
Hugh Kenner
, pp. 66-68 Photographers and seventeenth-century Dutch painters demonstrate the fine art of just l...
- Theater: The Great White Elephant
Marilyn Stasio
, pp. 69-73 The failure of Harold Prince's A Doll's Life, and what it says about Broadway
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Fiction: Barbara's Pym's clement, comfortable world (Review) Frances Taliaferro
, p. 74 Some Tame Gazelle, by Barbara Pym
- Some Tame Gazelle by Barbara Pym
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Brief Reviews (3 Reviews) , pp. 75-76 The Oxford Book of Death, by D.J. Enright
- The Oxford Book of Death by D.J. Enright
- The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
- South of Nowhere by Antonio Lobo Antunes
- Double Acrostic No. 8
Thomas H. Middleton
, pp. 77-79 - Puzzle
E.R. Galli and Richard Maltby, Jr.
, pp. 80-82 Beehive
- Cover art: The White House
Jeff MacNelly and David Suter
