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more boorish than hiI image? II Rttdolph Giuliani an old monk? II Gorby a glib maverick? Plm death by exerciIing and-finally - the Bob Goulet tour calendar fI} THE Spy MAP .. A man-bat hovering over Coney iIland.' The Virgin Mary prophesying in Flushing! STEPHEN RAE lovingly renders the UFOs and resurrections that make New Ytirk a city ofmiracles . .... ~ THE COVER s-n Wrivh! PARTY POOP . • . . • • • . . • . . 'W pitotovlUpMd br Chris Cam..
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RETURN TO GRENADA
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..As we approach the fifth anniversary ofthe Big \'(Iar-this generatioTls Viet1zam- GUY MARTIN hits the beacheI of Grenada in search of the MIAI we left behind; he finds an island swarming ...., with drugs, military materiel and would-be CIA informers
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"DEEP DOO.DOO": THE GEORGE BUSH QUIZ
.. President Bush? What a cockamamy idea!
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Read this report before yOIl vote. By PAUL SLANSKY Do SEX AND VIOLENCE SELL CIGARETTES?
.Our semiotics correspondent, JOH LEO, analyus the impressively overt sexual cigarettes' "Alive with Pleas/~rt advertising campaigtl. (}&u know: the ads with W01lletl gushitlg garden hoses. Those ones.) . . . . . . . . . . . PI I I
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•JAMIE MALANOWSKI's annual diet distillation ofthe most significant and atrocious recent celebrity autobiographies, from Mamie Van Doren to Freddie de Cordova, including all the dirty bits and humiliating rationalizationJ without all the selfserving filler. PllII BARRY WALDEN on How to Reada Celebrity Index, and "Sweet Smells of Success,na guirk to the stars' aromas.O THE HIGHTUFE DECATHLON
.. Carl Bermtein, Morgan Entrekin and Anth01zy Haden-Guest are the city's most night crawlers. But only one catl be champion. Spy private eyeIJOHN BRODIE and B08 MACK tailed unsuspecting contestams for an evening and kept score. And the winner is-
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ALSO
.CELIA BRADY charts the movements within The Industry; ANDREW SULLIVAN opens direct mail from black supporters ofJesse Helms's Politics; ELLIS WEINER describe! How to Be a Grown-up with a naughty nanny; JIM GRANT limns to the ominous hmh on The Street; CHARL£S PoarER cenJures the censors on The Webs; and T. S. LORD ~ on the Fashion favored by well-dressed dictators .... ~
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OUR UN.BRITISH CROSSWORD PUllLE
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