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February 9, 1998 Issue
"When a man is elected to Congress, he quite often has barely been known beyond his . . . local newspaper’s editorial board. And a lot of these guys are quick to take advantage."
-- A Senate aide, "Zipper Madness"
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| FEATURES Zipper Madness The intern. The inquisition. The denials. Hanna Rosin reports on the Clinton damage-control effort, and handicaps the administration’s survival strategies. Eric Konigsberg on the state of sex in the capital. Michael Tomasky on who was more reckless, Clinton or Starr. And Lawrence O’Donnell, Jr. on the Beltway culture of compulsive lying. From a hotly debated new cut-rate fertility clinic to a breast-sparing mastectomy technique to an ovarian-cancer-vaccine trial, New York surveys the city’s latest breakthroughs in health care for women. Collagen is harvested from umbilical cords, gay women get their own clinic, and you find out where it’s happening here. Cowboy Mouth Sam Shepard, mellow? The East Village icon with the full-blown Western obsession and scorched-earth views of love and family is back on the boards -- sober, if no less obsessed, and aiming to write a comedy. Love and Squalor J. D. Salinger created a series of beautiful, mysterious, uncanny heroines on the cusp of adulthood. Now, as Joyce Maynard prepares a memoir of her 1972 affair with the legendary recluse -- she was 18, he 54 -- it’s clear that his life imitated his art. An exclusive look at Salinger’s women.
| GOTHAM Bill gets cash; publishing on demand; E-ZPass is watching you GOTHAM STYLE Maybe I should buy some old Tab; Times art coverage DEPARTMENTS As her husband’s top defender, Hillary takes the idea of the supportive spouse to a new level. Should feminists cringe or applaud? The Big Picture Opening week: Hollywood’s most controversial maker of early-early predictions calls the nominations Restaurants Over ‘21’: After decades, it’s lost its power-broker cachet -- and the food can’t handle all this new attention MARKETPLACE High-design kitchenware; a serious briefcase; the right hamper
| Sales & Bargains BY ONDINE COHANE Valentine’s lingerie, Angela Cosmai’s highlights, and seasonal bargains at the Chelsea Antiques Building THE ARTS Ned Rorem’s spectacular new song cycle makes its debut Dance Misha goes it alone; for his birthday, Balanchine manqué Television Do the Charleston: A Black History Month focus on Carolina culture CUE Intelligencer |