Newsweek back issues from September 1995:
The fly in the soup: I find that lately, when dining out, I'm in danger of being hovered to death.(Column)
Sep 04, 1995; ... THERE IS A GROWING MENACE IN RESTAURANTS THESE days, and it's time we took action. It's not salmonella outbreaks in the kitchen, air conditioning at subzero temperatures or lighting so dim it wouldn't hurt to come with a Seeing Eye dog. It's an onslaught of overconcern. Suddenly, patrons are ...
Dole's dilemma.(Bob Dole's role as front-runner in GOP presidential campaign is shaky)
Sep 04, 1995; ... IF YOU'RE VACATIONING IN NEW Hampshire this week, be sure to stop at Lake Winnipesaukee. Its water is cool, its shore rustic. The wildlife is remarkable. If you're lucky, you even may catch a glimpse of a threatened species. He's migratory, hunts alone, stands six feet tall with dark brown ...
Divorce, Republican style.(GOP candidates espousing family values have all been divorced)(Brief Article)
Sep 04, 1995; ... I SEE NORMAN ROCKWELL paintings everywhere in the fabric of our families and in our country," Sen. Phil Gramm declared in his speech at Ross Perot's Dallas convention in August. Everywhere, perhaps, but in the Republican presidential field. Gramm's first wife filed for divorce in 1969, ...
It's not just owls anymore.(attacks on environmental regulation may backfire for Republicans)(Brief Article)
Sep 04, 1995; ... Issues: Republicans fear a political backlash over the environmentTHE LINE AT DENVER'S "TATTERED COVER" bookstore snaked down the stairs and past the espresso bar. House Speaker Newt Gingrich was signing copies of his best seller, "To Renew America," and among the 500 people ...
Up against the wall.(Mark Fuhrman interview tapes in O.J. Simpson trial bring more negative publicity to Los Angeles Police Department)
Sep 04, 1995; ... Justice: The explosive Furhman tapes put the LAPD under new scrutinySO JUST HOW ROTTEN is the Los Angeles Police Department? If leaks of the Mark Fuhrman tapes are accurate, it's a force that revels in beating, shooting, harassing, framing and intimidating suspects, among other ...
The shame of the city.(woman is beaten on a Detroit bridge then jumps to her death while a crowd watches)
Sep 04, 1995; ... THEY WERE GOOD SAMARITANS--TWO men who saw something terrible happening and tried to help. As Lawrence Walker tells it, he and his friend Orlando Brown spotted the crowd on the Belle Isle bridge and stopped their car. They heard someone say a woman had just jumped into the Detroit River 32 ...
The cave on tobacco road; ABC's decision to settle with Philip Morris is a blow to all real reporting.(ABC apologizes on the air for 1994 'Dateline' segment claiming tobacco companies adjust nicotine levels in cigarettes to addict users)(Column)
Sep 04, 1995; ... A DECADE AGO, I COVERED LIBEL SUITS BROUGHT BY Gen. William Westmoreland against CBS and by Gen. Ariel Sharon against Time magazine. More recently I wrote about "Dateline NBC's" rigged gas-tank explosions on GM cars. In these cases, news organizations were shoddy, arrogant and too slow to ...
Beyond gender.(women's movement must transcend identity politics)
Sep 04, 1995; ... OVER AND OVER AGAIN IN CHINA, women would say to me with a smile, men with a smirk: "Women hold up half the sky." It's a ritual Chinese saying, somehow putting an end to further serious discussion. The woman knows the man doesn't mean it; she's not supposed to take it seriously. But as the ...
Beijing makes nice - for now.(China releases human-rights activist Harry Wu)
Sep 04, 1995; ... BOTH SIDES KNEW THE game. Beijing first announced that it had sentenced human-rights activist Harry Wu to 15 years in prison for espionage--then put him on an Air China jetliner from Shanghai to San Francisco, near his home. Wu's expulsion removed the top item from the agenda of U.S. Under ...
Pushing back the veil.(feminists in Iran)
Sep 04, 1995; ... Teheran: Can the conference help Iran's feminists?THE DAUGHTER OF THE AYATOLLAH Khomeini is about the last person in the world you'd expect to hear spouting feminist rhetoric. A Western visitor sipping tea in her formal little office (just past the DEATH TO THE USA sign near the ...
His secret weapon.(Saddam Hussein had a germ-warfare arsenal during Gulf War)
Sep 04, 1995; ... Iraq: Saddam had a big germ-warfare arsenalFOR SEVERAL DAYS AT THE END OF 1990 and the beginning of 1991, the world stood on the brink of the first holocaust ever caused by biological weapons. Iraq finally admitted last week that its germ-warfare program had been much bigger -- and ...
Blood on the altar.(Father Wenceslas Munyeshyaka and other Rwandan priests accused of aiding genocide)
Sep 04, 1995; ... Rwanda: What did you do in the war, Father?HE IS A BELOVED FIGURE IN THE southern French village of Bourg-St-Andeol. Several times a week, as morning sunlight filters through the yellow stained-glass windows of a 12th-century church, Father Wenceslas Munyeshyaka, 37, leads his ...
The baby myth.(high-tech fertility clinics more hype than hope)
Sep 04, 1995; ... Jodi Peterson, 36, still can't believe it has come to this. After eight months of failing to conceive right after her 1991 marriage, she found herself in the maw of the infertility machine. She and her husband, who live in suburban Maryland, endured a year of tests, from semen analysis to ...
The future of birth.
Sep 04, 1995; ... TODAY'S FERTILITY treatments fail more often than they succeed, but assisted reproduction is still a young science, and researchers insist it's a hopeful one. "We've seen huge changes in the past 10 years," says Dr. Mark Sauer, a fertility specialist at the University of Southern California ....
Put the metal to the metal.(Robot Wars annual demolition competition)(Brief Article)
Sep 04, 1995; ... THEY CAME TOGETHER IN AN ABANdoned hangar on the San Francisco waterfront. The Master was there. So were Zomo, Thor and the Orb of Doom. It was a fight to the death. The crowd roared as The Master flipped Thor, shooting him aside with a flick of his tail. Thor recovered; his titanium hammer ...
A walk on the wired side.(on-line vs traditional journalism)
Sep 04, 1995; ... CALL IT THE E-MAIL MESSAGE heard round the world. Last spring John Callan sent a note to an editor at PC World magazine. His request was simple: he wanted to join a private Internet mail list for journalists, in which reporters exchange gossip. But when members received e-mail saying Callan ...
A Neo-Latin lover.(film star Antonio Banderas)
Sep 04, 1995; ... It was only five years ago that Antonio Banderas -then known only to American moviegoers for his Spanish films with Pedro Almodovar--sat down with director Arne Glimcher to talk about appearing in his first English-language role in "The Mambo Kings." "He had a nice talk," Banderas explains ....
Getting horizontal.(Elizabeth Streb/Ringside dancers are suspended in mid-air)
Sep 04, 1995; ... THERE'S NO STAGE HERE: THE AUDIENCE is staring up at an enormous wall against which four dancers are dangling high in the air. Each is strapped into an elaborate harness rigged to a pulley that's attached to scaffolding behind the wall. This enables the dancers to do all sorts of horizontal ...
The First Man.
Sep 04, 1995; ... FEW AUTHORS HAVE WRITTEN BETTER first novels than "The Stranger," and perhaps no one has ever written a more arresting opening line than "Maman died today. or yesterday maybe, I don't know." Blending existentialism with the lean, noirish style that James M. Cain perfected in "The Postman ...
I Just Wasn't Made for These Times.
Sep 04, 1995; ... EVERY FAMILY HAS A CRAZY, LOVABLE old uncle or grandpa. Rock and roll has Brian Wilson. Bounding about his house off Mulholland Drive in Los Angeles, Wilson is seized by the desire to play a particular oldie of his, "Caroline No," on the living-room piano. The song has been on his mind ...
Alfred Eisenstaedt 1898-1995.(news photographer)(Obituary)
Sep 04, 1995; ... Alfred Eeisenstaedt said his famous photograph of a sailor kissing a nurse in Times Square was "accidental," no more preplanned than any of the 1 million pictures he estimated he took during a 68-year career. Actually, on VJ Day in 1945, Eisenstaedt noticed a swabbie smooching his way ...
Digging your own tunnel: how a movie has helped me regain perspective on my debilitating illness.(The Shawshank Redemption)(Column)
Sep 11, 1995; ... EVERY NOW AND THEN DURING YOUR LIFETIME YOU read or see or hear something that so exemplifies your existence, or a part of it, that it's almost painful. I recently had such an experience while watching "The Shawshank Redemption," a movie about the effects of life-term imprisonment on hope ...
Powell on the March.(General Colin Powell may run for president)(Cover Story)
Sep 11, 1995; ... PRESIDENTS ALWAYS WANT COLIN POWELL AT their side. There is fresh evidence in "My American Journey," the autobiography Powell unveils next week. When George Bush won in 1988, Powell discloses, the new president-elect wanted to name him CIA director. Powell declined, and Bush later chose him ...
The very model of a political general.(Colin Powell)(Cover Story)
Sep 11, 1995; ... BOSNIA -- A TERRIBLE ETHNIC conflict in terrain that virtually nullifies American military power--posed a crucial test for the incoming Clinton administration, and Colin Powell was worried about it. As Powell tells it in his new book, "My American Journey," he was repeatedly forced to play ...
Looking for a hero.(call for Colin Powell to run for president similar to campaign of Dwight Eisenhower)(Cover Story)
Sep 11, 1995; ... THE NATION IS GAGGING ON PARTISANSHIP. PEOPLE ARE fed up with politicians; there is third- and even fourth-party ferment. In the fall election, the president won office with fewer than half the votes.That was 1948--a political moment very nearly as unsettled as our own. That year, ...
Make war, make peace.(NATO air strikes bring Bosnian Serbs to peace talks)
Sep 11, 1995; ... THE FAMILIAR THUD OF ORDnance roused Sabina Rajcic from a deep sleep early last Wednesday. As a Sarajevan, the 37-year-old shopkeeper has endured such wake-up calls over the past 3 1/2 years. Fresh in her mind was Monday's mortar attack on a market only steps from her store, which left 37 ...
Learning about the Serbs - as a captive.(journalist held by Bosnian Serbs)
Sep 11, 1995; ... I ARRIVED IN BOSNIAN SERB territory at the invitation of Sonja Karadzic, a would-be pop singer who runs the press office for her dad, the president. NATO bombers had been working the Bosnian skies all day, and reconnaissance jets could be heard far overhead. "There's a small problem," a ...
Struggling 'through hell and high water.'(China tries to minimize protests at international women's forum)
Sep 11, 1995; ... CHINA WAS READY FOR THE feminists of the world. Taxi drivers were advised not to pick up any naked females who might try to flag them down. Hotels were issued cloaks to throw over the legions of strippers who were expected to arrive. Security guards, many of them fresh from the farm, were ...
Unsolved mystery. (1994 crash of USAir Flight 427)
Sep 11, 1995; ... IT WAS THE GOLDEN LIGHT JUST BEfore sunset. The September sky was crisp and clear. "Certainly 'preciate you choosing USAir for your travel needs this evening," copilot Chuck Emmett told passengers over the intercom as Flight 427 from Chicago prepared for a routine landing in Pittsburgh ....
An urge to merge: foxes in the chicken coop.(proposed Time Warner-Turner Broadcasting merger)
Sep 11, 1995; ... THESE GUYS ARE GOING TO BE partners? Just last year Ted Turner whined that Time Warner, which owns a large chunk of Turner Broadcasting System, was preventing him from buying a network like CBS. John Malone, the Tele-Communications Inc. chief who also controls a big stake in Turner ...
So who needs a megabank?(An urge to merge)
Sep 11, 1995; ... FROM THE PANORAMIC WINDOWS AT Chase Manhattan Bank's Wall Street headquarters, the Allied Pilots Association Federal Credit Union isn't even a speak on the horizon. The massive bank, with 33,000 employees, has $119 billion in assets; the six-employee credit union has only $20 million. Chase ...
Big boys with their bigger toys. (merger wave includes ill-advised deals)(An urge to merge)
Sep 11, 1995; ... IF YOU REMEMBER HIGH-school physics, you'll recall that putting enough atoms together the right way creates a nuclear reaction that feeds on itself and just keeps going. The dealmaking world has now reached this point, which physicists call critical mass. Big deals create big deals that ...
Calvin's world.(Calvin Klein drops jeans ads labeled 'kiddie porn' by critics, plans international expansion)
Sep 11, 1995; ... IN THE WATER TOWER PLACE MALL IN CHICAGO LAST week, Jennifer Marks and her mother, Clara, had a Calvin Klein problem. His ads were "absolutely" pornographic, said Clara, 41. "They're exploiting children." It was the day after Klein had announced that he was pulling his controversial new ad ...
Tonka toys with torque.(mini sport-utility vehicles from Suzuki and Toyota)
Sep 11, 1995; ... APORSCHE IT AIN'T. BUT IF YOU GUN A 1996 Suzuki X-90 downhill through a hairpin turn you'll probably be too tickled to care. Jaunty, solid and pint-size, this four-wheel-drive vehicle is a Tonka toy with torque. Even when it's standing still, its cartoonish dimensions--impossibly high, wide ...
Theme cities.(developers rebuild urban commercial districts with entertainment themes)
Sep 11, 1995; ... FOR A GENERATION, THE BLOCK OF 42D STREET JUST west of Times Square has been one of New York's great civic embarrassments, a sinkhole of iniquity that couldn't even trap any tourists worth fleecing. While other vice-oriented vacation spots like Las Vegas were encouraging visitors to bring ...
That's entertainment: shopping malls are borrowing ideas from theme parks to survive.
Sep 11, 1995; ... WANDERING THE cobblestone paths of Caesars Forum Shops in Las Vegas, you can't help thinking that if Julius hadn't been so busy conquering the Gauls, he might have built a mall like this. Every detail is imperial--and gaudy, too. Crashing waters bathe Poseidon in a re-creation of Rome's ...
The Spielberg of sitcoms.(director James Burrows)
Sep 11, 1995; ... JAMES BURROWS IS A TV DIRECTOR. Big deal. Everyone knows TV is a writers' medium. Writers, actors, fat comediennes. But Burrows isn't just any director. If you've spent any time near a TV set in the last 20 years, he has made you laugh. Many times. His credits may ring a bell: "Taxi," ...
Back to O.J.'s trial.(Mark Fuhrman tapes excluded from O.J. Simpson trial)(includes related article on screenplay by Fuhrman's interviewer Laura Hart McKinny)
Sep 11, 1995; ... FOR ONCE, JOHNNIE COCHRAN WAS almost speechless. Minutes after Judge Lance Ito ruled that only a few snippets of the explosive Mark Fuhrman tapes could be played to the jury, O.J. Simpson's lead attorney sputtered to a reporter: "We're livid! We don't know what to do." By the time he and the ...
Abortion by prescription.(combination of anti-cancer drug methotrexate and ulcer drug misoprostol produces safe abortions)(Brief Article)
Sep 11, 1995; ... SCIENTISTS OFTEN OVER-estimate the impact of their discoveries. But Dr. Richard Hausknecht wasn't grandstanding when he wore a bulletproof vest last week to announce his breakthrough. In a study, he showed that two widely available $10 prescription drugs induce abortions reliably, safely, ...
Naked at 40,000 feet: it's time to promulgate a dress code for airline passengers.(Column)
Sep 11, 1995; ... IN THE NEXT LIFE I AM GOING TO HAVE A TERRIFIC JOB. I am going to be a dress-code enforcer for the airlines. I won't be the only one, of course. It will take thousands of us stationed at departure gates all over the country, from Boise to Orlando to New York, with a status approximating that ...
The romance of old tools; worn-in jointers and planes manifest the highest aspirations of my art.(Column)
Sep 18, 1995; ... I HAD BEEN A PRACTICING WOODWORKER FOR MORE THAN seven years before I learned what tools were really about. Last year, back at my childhood home in Colorado, I visited an uncle I hadn't seen for more than a decade. He was fighting the final stages of lung cancer; visits, though welcome, were ...
Decline and fall.(Senator Bob Packwood resigns after censure by Senate Ethics Committee)
Sep 18, 1995; ... THERE WAS BOB PACKwood, meandering on about his favorite squash games as a U.S. senator. As his colleagues shifted uneasily at their desks on the Senate floor, Packwood dreamily reflected back on the "camaraderie [that] is unbelievable," the "friendships beyond count." Then he quoted General ...
Hill: 'The dismal reality remains.' (Bob Packwood expulsion may not raise public awareness of sexual harassment)
Sep 18, 1995; ... THE POLITICAL ANAlysts would like us to believe that the Senate Ethics Committee's 6-0 vote to expel Sen. Bob Packwood resulted from its members' fear of open hearings on sexual misconduct. But the collective weight of such detailed charges by so many women about incidents over the course of ...
The trouble with George.(White House aide George Stephanopoulos still has clout)
Sep 18, 1995; ... MESSY AFTER-HOURS ARrests have snuffed out more than a few Washington careers. The first television reports hyping George Stephanopoulos's arrest in Georgetown last week on charges of leaving the scene of an accident and driving without a license had the ominous feel of a Wilbur Mills-style ...
MediScare.(Republican Medicare reform)(Cover Story)
Sep 18, 1995; ... GREG GANSKE OF IOWA was ignoring the script. As a freshman Republican congressman, he was supposed to tell a stagey GOP "feedback forum" that voters in Des Moines are ready for major surgery on Medicare, the beloved colossus of postware entitlements. But Ganske, a surgeon, was more doctor ...
The new fine print; what will Congress do about your Medicare? A primer on what's coming - and whether it will work.(Cover Story)
Sep 18, 1995; ... SUNNILY, HOUSE REPUBLIcans call it "Medichoice"--to underscore the idea that elderly Americans will be able to choose the coverage they want. And the options, insists one GOP staffer, are "all carrots, no sticks." But will the GOP plan for revamping Medicare really "save" $270 billion by ...
Show us your stuff; instead of frittering away his last campaign, Bob Dole could be a hero.(Column)
Sep 18, 1995; ... BOB DOLE WRITHES ALONG THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL. IT'S not a pleasant sight. His standard stump speech is a halfhearted ramble through opaque thickets of rhetorical blather, a paean to inevitability: it's me, it's my turn. When he visits wary bastions of the party faithful--last week, the Christian ...
Peace? Not yet.(Bosnia)
Sep 18, 1995; ... IT WAS A START, OF SORTS. IN BOSNIA, where low expectations are seldom disappointed, the vague outlines of an accord seemed cause for a fragment of hope. Last week's preliminary agreement between Bosnia, Croatia and Serbia is "an important milestone in the search for peace," claimed lead ...
'We turned this around.'(World Women's Conference delegates speak out despite suppression by Chinese authorities)
Sep 18, 1995; ... IN THE END, THE "WILLOW CLUB" MAY prove the most fitting symbol for last week's women's conference outside Beijing. A great, barren hulk of concrete looming over a field of soggy tents, it perfectly summed up China's arrogance and incompetence as conference host. Not only did the Chinese ...
The tiniest diplomat.(birth of Yasir Arafat's daughter, Zahwa, helps Israel-PLO relations)(Brief Article)
Sep 18, 1995; ... BABIES DO HAVE WINNING WAYS. THEY melt hearts and help break the ice socially. But can a baby contribute to peace in the Middle East? If the little girl in question is Zahwa Arafat, daughter of the PLO chairman, then the answer may be yes--in a very Middle Eastern sort of way. And she's not ...
France blows it again.(nuclear bomb test draws international criticism)
Sep 18, 1995; ... SOME OF THE OFFICIALS NEAR GROUND zero sat in outdoor deck chairs to watch. As the shock wave from the underground nuclear test reached the Pacific lagoon's surface, the water seethed white. It quickly turned blue and clear again. A film released shortly afterward by the French government ...
The end of the affair.(peso crisis is ending Mexican custom of keeping mistresses)(Brief Article)
Sep 18, 1995; ... ANITA HAD THE LIFE EVERY MEXICAN mistress dreams of. Her married, fiftysomething lover--a high-ranking, well-paid political operative in the ruling party--had set her up in an apartment in a fashionable Mexico City neighborhood. He bought her clothes, paid her credit-card bills and whisked ...
When all else fails, hire a Wall Street favorite.(Kerkorian again tries to take over Chrysler Corp., with the aid of Jerome York)
Sep 18, 1995; ... REMEMBER THE STORY of Cyrano, the ugly suitor who teams up with a hunky pal to help him win the woman of his dreams? Wall Street watched the first act of a new version of that tale last week. The homely wooer in this drama is Kirk Kerkorian, the takeover magnate whose $22.8 billion hostile ...
The rogue trader speaks.(Nicholas Leeson, who bankrupted Barings PLC)
Sep 18, 1995; ... TWO QUESTIONS HAVE REMAINED SINCE rogue futures trader Nicholas Leeson singlehandedly sank Barings PLC earlier this year: Would he be shipped back to Singapore, where he worked for the bank? And, would he drag his bosses down with him? Bad news for Leeson: he may be headed back to the Asian ...
Faster and faster.(Intel's new PG microprocessor is at least twice as fast as its Pentium)
Sep 18, 1995; ... SHOPPING FOR A PC? OPEN UP ALMOST any computer magazine, and you'll find an ad touting Intel Inside. Feel the speed. Experience the power. It's the mighty Pentium, king of the chips.Well ... for now. If we've learned anything these days, it's how quickly today's mainframe becomes ...
Blood and tears. (clinical trials of abortion pill mifepristone)(includes related information on 3 abortion techniques)
Sep 18, 1995; ... WHEN THE NAME RU-486 washed up on this side of the Atlantic 12 years ago, it accomplished the seemingly impossible: it gave pro-life and prochoice advocates something in common. Both thought that if the "French abortion pill" ever became available, it would change the landscape of abortion ...
Houses of the rising sons.(magazine launches: John Kennedy's George and William Kristol's The Weekly Standard)
Sep 18, 1995; ... NEVER MIND THAT AMERICANS ARE narcoleptic over politics. Or that new magazines go down like Peter McNeeley. Never mind even the sky-high cost of paper. Last week two magazines about politics tried to defy the marketplace odds and launched inaugural issues. The Weekly Standard is gray, ...
The absent detective.(Mark Furhman; O.J. Simpson murder case)
Sep 18, 1995; ... WHEN LAPD DET. MARK FUHRMAN took the stand six months ago in the O. J. Simpson murder trial, he was the epitome of the star prosecution witness: poised, articulate, even cocky. He easily handled famed defense lawyer F. Lee Bailey, coolly explaining how he found a bloody glove at Simpson's ...
Power, sex and a big TV.(new books on the masculine mystique)
Sep 18, 1995; ... ABOUT MRS. FREUD'S QUEStion--what does a man want?--there has seldom been much call for investigation. Everyone knows what a man wants: power, dominion, maybe a big TV and a menu of amatory delights. As the French feminist Elizabeth Badinter notes in "XY: On Masculine Identity" (274 pages ....
Goodbye to the kid's stuff.(Fall Preview: Movies)
Sep 18, 1995; ... IF THE TASTEMAKERS WHO CONTROL HOLLYWOOD ARE RIGHT, A peculiar thing happens to audiences when autumn blows in: miraculously, moviegoers gain about 75 IQ points, their taste for dark and disturbing subject matter blossoms, and they age overnight about 20 years. So instead of pushing movies ...
Publishers' sweepstakes.(Fall Preview: Books)
Sep 18, 1995; ... MORE AND MORE IT SEEMS THAT NUMBERS, NOT WORDS, are what people in publishing talk about when they talk about books. Not so long ago, the buzz in the book business centered on authors--what had you heard about the new Cheever, the new Pynchon, this month's Joyce Carol Oates novel? This fall, ...
So much TV, so little time.(Fall Preview: Television)
Sep 18, 1995; ... THE OLD TV GRIPE WAS, THERE'S NOTHING ON. OF COURSE, MOST of the people who said that were logging 187 hours of TV time a week: they just wouldn't admit it. Now we have a new problem: there's too much on. Six networks. Those DirecTV dishes. How long before there's a Hair Club for Men ...
Cool country, megawatt pop.(Fall Preview: Music)
Sep 18, 1995; ... DESPITE YEARS OF BOMBARDMENT FROM MTV, KNOW-IT-ALL programmers, niche marketers and shock jocks, the concept of radio retains a touch of old-style glamour. Snobs like to complain that there's nothing good on, but several albums by established acts this fall should make superb music easy to ...
Exaltation of Divas.(Fall Preview: Theater & Dance)
Sep 18, 1995; ... BROADWAY, AFTER HAVING ITS BACON (and its Tonys) saved last season by "Sunset Boulevard," with its diva heroine, Norma Desmond, is rushing in a Rapid Reaction Force of divas. Diva grandissima is the unquenchable Carol Channing, who at 74 returns in a revival of her biggest hit, the 1964 ...
Beauty and beats.(Fall Preview: Art)
Sep 18, 1995; ... THE LAST FEW YEARS HAVE BEEN HARD ON visual art. To folks in the malls and on Capitol Hill, art is about as welcome as Calvin Klein at a PTA meeting. Hassles over Robert Mapplethorpe, Karen Finley and Ron Athey have taken their toll on the art world. Kathy Halbreich, director of ...