December 14, 1992 Issue, THE NEW YORKER

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- Comment, pp. 4-9
  Term Extension
- Goings On About Town, pp. 10-42
- The Talk of the Town, pp. 43-50
- Our Far-Flung Correspondents: Hunting with the Sheikhs
  Mary Anne Weaver
  , pp. 51-64
  How Arab royals spend millions in the pursuit of a rare bird
- Gifts for the House: Baby It's Cold Outside, pp. 65-75
  A holiday shopping list for staying home in style
- A Reporter at Large: Nixon's Last Cover-Up
  Seymour M. Hersh
  , pp. 76-79
  The National Archives still holds four thousand hours of White House tapes, and the for...
- "The Country Road"
  James Laughlin
  , pp. 80-81
- Storyboard: Christmas Off Fifth
  Richard Cline
  , pp. 82-85
- "Whistling in the Dark"
  Eamon Grennan
  , pp. 86-88
- Artist at Large: Buy the Right Thing
  Art Spiegelman
  , pp. 89-93
- "Maybe All This"
  Wislawa Szymborska
  , pp. 94-95
- Artist's Notebook: A Consumer's Christmas
  Stephanie Skalisky
  , pp. 96-97
- Fiction: "Tiny in the Wilderness"
  Tom Drury
  , pp. 98-120
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  No Quite Camelot (2 Reviews)
  Terrence Rafferty
  , pp. 121-122
  Love Field (1991 Film), by Jonathan Kaplan
  1. Love Field (1991 Film) by Jonathan Kaplan
  2. The Bodyguard (1992 Film) by Mick Jackson
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  Tell It to the Marines (Review)
  Michael Sragow
  , pp. 123-127
  A Few Good Men (1992 Film), by Rob Reiner
  1. A Few Good Men (1992 Film) by Rob Reiner
- Musical Events
  Paul Griffiths
  , pp. 128-133
  Lammermoor Revisited
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  From Our Pages (18 Reviews) , pp. 134-135
  Up in the Old Hotel, and Other Stories, by Joseph Mitchell
  1. Up in the Old Hotel, and Other Stories by Joseph Mitchell
  2. Sleepwalker in a Fog by Tatyana Tolstaya
  3. A Complicated War by William Finnegan
  4. As If It Matters by Eamon Grennan
  5. The Purloined Clinic by Janet Malcolm
  6. Chinatown by Gwen Kinkead
  7. The Age of Missing Information by Bill McKibben
  8. Sub Rosa by Susan Prospere
  9. Oh Canada! Oh Quebec! by Mordecai Richler
  10. Under the 82nd Airborne by Deborah Eisenberg
  11. Temperaments: Artists Facing Their Work by Dan Hofstadter
  12. Trying to Smile, and Other Stories by Sara Lewis
  13. After Henry by Joan Didion
  14. After the War Was Over by Neil Sheehan
  15. Jesus' Son by Denis Johnson
  16. The New Yorker Book of Dog Cartoons
  17. Billie Dyer and Other Stories by William Maxwell
  18. A Woman Kneeling in the Big City by Elizabeth Macklin
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  The Art Market: Going...Going...Gone (Review)
  Calvin Tomkins
  , pp. 136-138
  From Manet to Manhattan, by Peter Watson
  1. From Manet to Manhattan by Peter Watson
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  Books Briefly Noted (5 Reviews) , p. 139
  The Trespassers, by Robert Roper
  1. The Trespassers by Robert Roper
  2. The Great Melody by Conor Cruise O'Brien
  3. The American Way of Death by Jessica Mitford
  4. After Tet: The Bloodiest Year in Vietnam by Ronald H. Spector
  5. Equatoria by Richard Price and Sally Price
- Shouts and Murmers
  James Stevenson
  , pp. 140-142
  Brigs 7, Phoons 0
- Cover
  Michael Witte