Table of Contents100 DAYS OF ATTITUDETHE PURSUIT OF STUFFINESS THOMAS JEFFERSON'S LIFE HAD PLENTY OF DRAMATIC MATERIAL, BUT JEFFERSON IN PARIS IS IN TOO MUCH TASTEFUL AWE OF ITS SUBJECTA TINY WIN AGAINST AIDS? EVIDENCE THAT A CHILD HAS BEATEN THE VIRUS RAISES HOPES FOR A VACCINE--IF HE WAS REALLY INFECTEDVERBAL MEDICINE TWO WRITERS VIEW THEIR ILLNESSES WITH SPIRIT AND WITSILENCE, CUNNING, EXILE FROM STRIFE-TORN GEORGIA COMES GIYA KANCHELI, WHO MAY BE THE MOST IMPORTANT SOVIET COMPOSER SINCE SHOSTAKOVICHTHE MESSAGE OF MIRACLES AS THE FAITHFUL HUNGER FOR THEM, SCHOLARS RUSH TO DEBUNK AND TO DOUBT. CAN WE AFFORD TO BELIEVE?MODERN MIRACLES HAVE STRICT RULESDANGEROUS TIDES A NEW WAVE OF ILLEGAL ALIENS IS FINDING A PERILOUS AND EXPENSIVE ROUTE INTO THE UNITED STATESA PEACE HERE, A PEACE THERE UNFAZED BY CRITICISM THAT HE CODDLES TYRANTS, CARTER KEEPS UP HIS PEREGRINATIONS--NOW IT'S SUDANGOD AND MAN IN LIVERPOOL PUMPED BY CONTROVERSY, THE BRITISH DRAMA PRIEST REDUCES COMPLEX MORAL ISSUES TO THE STUFF OF MAUDLIN MELODRAMATHE DOCTOR'S CRYSTAL BALL SUPERSENSITIVE TESTS CAN TELL US WHAT DISEASES LIE IN OUR FUTURE. DO WE REALLY WANT TO KNOW?JESS LIKE A WOMAN WITH AN OSCAR FOR BLUE SKY, JESSICA LANGE SHOWS SHE CAN BLOOM IN THE CHIC GHETTO OF WOMEN'S FILMSEXPERIENCING THE WONDER AFTER FOUR YEARS, R.-AND-B. GRANDMASTER STEVIE WONDER IS BACK WITH BUBBLY NEW TUNES--AND SOME SERIOUS NEW CONCERNS"THE PARALLEL IS F.D.R."WINNERS & LOSERSTHE WEEK MARCH 26-APRIL 1DEATH OF A RISING STAR SELENA, ADORED ALONG THE BORDER AS THE TEX-MEX MADONNA, IS GUNNED DOWN WHILE CONFRONTING A FANANOTHER SHOCK TO THE SYSTEM AFTER AN ATTACK ON THE TOP POLICEMAN, AUTHORITIES REDOUBLE THEIR INVESTIGATION OF A DOOMSDAY CULTHANDS OF STONE, HEARTS OF GOLDA RECURRING NIGHTMARE THE BLOODLETTING BETWEEN HUTU AND TUTSI NOW THREATENS TO ERUPT ACROSS THE BORDER FROM RWANDAMILESTONESSEX, LIES AND W.R. GRACE REWRITING HISTORY, THE COMPANY ADMITS THAT IT OUSTED ITS CEO OVER EVIDENCE OF SEXUAL MISCONDUCTCOWBOYS IN THE CIA CLINTON DEMANDS SCRUTINY OF NEW CHARGES THAT THE AGENCY WAS COMPLICIT IN KILLINGS AND COVER-UPSANECDOTES NOT ANTIDOTES PHILIP K. HOWARD IS EVERYONE'S FAVORITE ANTI- REGULATORY GURU, BUT HIS BEST-SELLING BOOK IS FLAWEDDREAM GIRL THE PLEASURES OF MURIEL'S WEDDING ARE NOT SO INNOCENTTHE REAL PULP FICTION JAMES ELLROY CALLS HIS RUDE, VIOLENT, BREAKTHROUGH NOVEL AMERICAN TABLOID A "SEWER CRAWL" THROUGH HISTORY. HIS OWN LIFE HAS BEEN NO WALK IN THE PARKA HOUSE OF GAMES IN ARCADIA, TOM STOPPARD PLAYS WITH WORDS, CENTURIES AND THE LAWS OF ENTROPY TO PRODUCE A MAJOR DRAMATIC WORKWRITER'S BLOCK NOVELIST MICHAEL CHABON SUFFERS THE THIRD-BOOK BLUES
