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- Live-In Divorce
- By Francine Russo
- February 5, 1990
Tortured couples who have to stay together.
- Bill Clinton: Who Is This Guy?
- By Joe Klein
- January 20, 1992
A look at the latest Democratic presidential hopeful.
- Invisible Man
- By Lawrence Otis Graham
- August 17, 1992
Why did this $105,000-a-year lawyer from Harvard go to work as a $7-an-hour busboy at the Greenwich Country Club—and what did he find?
- Character Study
- By David Halberstam
- December 21-28, 1992
Pat Riley is in search of character and excellence. Nothing less.
- The New Anti-Semitism
- By Craig Horowitz
- January 11, 1993
On a cool, sunny Saturday near the beginning of October, 12-year-old David was in synagogue studying, singing, and hanging out with his friends.
- The Sharpton Generation
- By Craig Horowitz
- April 4, 1994
How Al Sharpton and a band of young insurgents are making a grab for power in the post-Dinkins era.
- White Hot Trash!
- By Tad Friend
- August 22, 1994
The nineties finally have their defining figure—and he hates your guts.
- Strike a Pose
- By Sarah Ferguson
- November 7, 1994
Have naked supermodels become the torchbearers for radicalism in our time?
- Comedy Isn’t Funny
- By Chris Smith
- March 13, 1995
Saturday Night Live at twenty—how the show that transformed TV became a grim joke.
- Our Martha, Ourselves
- By Barbara Lippert
- May 15, 1995
It's no longer sufficient to dismiss Martha Stewart as a control-freakish middlebrow tastemaker. She's bigger, much bigger.
- The Last Designer
- By Rebecca Mead
- September 16, 1996
Giorgio Armani believes that after all the colors have been run through and all the decades recycled, people will turn to a specific idea of style—his own.
- Meet Your Neighbor, Thomas Pynchon
- By Nancy Jo Sales
- November 11, 1996
The world's most successful media fugitive has been living quietly among us. A literary investigation.
- Show of Force
- By Craig Horowitz
- September 22, 1997
The same cops who say that what happened to Abner Louima was heinous also say that violence is an indispensable part of doing their jobs.
- Free Willy!?!
- By Hanna Rosin
- February 9, 1998
So long for now, President Gore. Clinton is on the verge of another comeback.
- Caution: These Kids Are About to Blow Up
- By Nancy Jo Sales
- August 24, 1998
Hitting it big before the age of 25—the way Puffy did—is the new club-kid dream.
- Welcome to the Dollhouse
- By Vanessa Grigoriadis
- December 7, 1998
Perky, pretty, and remarkably plugged-in, a pack of young publicists have become the darlings of New York's demimonde. But be careful—they bite.
- Vida Lopez
- By Nancy Jo Sales
- September 6, 1999
Why Jennifer Lopez might be the celebrity of the future.