A Question of Character Clarence
Thomas and Anita Hill were both known for truthfulness and integrity -- until now A Real Straight Arrow

A Question of Character
Clarence Thomas and Anita Hill were both known for truthfulness and integrity -- until now A Reputation For Integrity

A Sexual Etiquette Guide

A Woman Who Refused To Join the Party

Cover Stories: An Ugly Circus
Into the arena there came two gladiators, fourteen Senators and an audience of millions. But could anyone possibly declare victory when the spectacle was so repellent?

Disarmament Can Cut Both Ways (Grapevine)

Europe's Nuclear-Free Future (Grapevine)

Hasta La Vista, General Sandinista (Grapevine)

If You Don't Get It, Just Forget It (Grapevine)

Office Crimes
In a matter of hours, a new vocabulary of laws and risks and expectations entered the language of the factory floor and the tower suite

Science and Sacrilege Roil the Faithful (Grapevine)

She Said, He Said
As the nation looks on, two credible, articulate witnesses present irreconcilable views of what happened nearly a decade ago

The Political Interest Shame on Them All

The Stereotypes of Race
Both Anita Hill and Clarence Thomas must overcome realities and myths to get a fair hearing from society

The Ultimate Men's Club
As pampered denizens of a virtually all-male bastion, many Senators were slow to grasp the seriousness of the sexual-harassment issue

Vox Pop (Grapevine)

When Love Letters Become Hated Mail


America Abroad
Heading Off a Chain Reaction

Arafat: Don't Count Me Out

Middle East Must We Talk? Now?
As the date for a peace conference nears, Israel and the Arabs show acute discomfort at the idea of being face to face

World Notes Haiti
Shifting on Aristide?

World Notes India
Hide and Sikh

World Notes Iraq
Spiking the Big Guns

World Notes the Philippines
Homecoming Postponed


Disposing of The Nuclear Age
The cold war has left the U.S. with mountains of hot garbage and no permanent site for storing it


Rushing Ddi To Market (Health)

Using Cancer to Fight Cancer (Medicine)
A high-profile researcher plans to inject patients with their own genetically altered tumor cells

When Your Doctor Has AIDS (Health)
Bucking an emotional national crusade, New York decides not to force physicians to tell their patients


Ask A Satellite For Directions (Living)
Hand-held gadgets that receive signals from space make it harder to get lost

Going Abroad to Find a Baby
The laws of supply and demand have led to a boom in overseas adoption, but the quest can be lengthy, expensive and sometimes morally troubling

Psst! Babies for Sale!


Talk About Dishing Up Dirt!
From the folks who bring you the controversial Sassy, a new magazine for the 14-to-20 male set


A Grand New Getty (Design)
Architect Richard Meier's model for a sprawling art center shows there's lots of verve left in American modernism


The World on a Screen
Interactive multimedia could bring a universe of words, sounds and pictures to our fingertips, but today's systems are still a jumble


Time Magazine Contents Page (Contents)
Vol. 138 No. 15 OCTOBER 21, 1991

Time Magazine Masthead (Masthead)
Vol. 138 No. 15 OCTOBER 21, 1991

Business Notes Employee Rights
Big Brother Comes Clean

Business Notes Entertainment
The Peacock Gets Plucked

Business Notes Scandals
Fiddling Up A Fine Mess

Business Notes Securities
Now You See 'Em . . .

Financial Services Hitting the Credit Limit
No longer good as gold, American Express struggles to recover from painful attempts to diversify and a slump in card fortunes

Money Angles
It Doesn't Take a Genius to Make a Killing

Power Marriage Has Its Privileges


Critics' Voices (Critics' Voices)

Daydreaming (Theater)

Dead End on Sesame Street (Cinema)
Corrupt and corrosive, the big town may be no place to live any more, but Hollywood still likes to visit

If You Had A Hammer (Books)

Real-Life Davids vs. Goliaths (Show Business)
When amateurs take on the American Gladiators, it makes for a TV show, toys and -- who knows? -- maybe even a movie

Walking Old Tom's Grand Grid (Books)
In faded towns of central Kansas, ghosts and live inhabitants sleep squared to the world, neatly, like accountant's figures


Interview (Interview)


From the Managing Editor (From The Managing Editor)


Women Would Have Known