Hairstylists and makeup artists who cater to celebrities and socialites are as likely to turn up at A-list parties as their clients; people who clip, snip and apply coloring, once viewed as members of service class, are emerging as new social lions in era that is increasingly image-obsessed; drawing (M)

From Stylist to Socialite; Hairdressers and makeup artists as social darlings, invited everywhere. (Off duty, of course.)

Utah Jazz players are not basking in glow of their win 83-81 win against Chicago Bulls, and staying alive in NBA finals; photo of Jazz player Karl Malone and Bulls' Michael Jordan in Game 5 (M)

Defeat Deferred, but Jazz Isn't Smiling Yet

Behind the Wheel column describes 1999 Porsche 911 Carrera Coupe and Cabriolet; photos; chart (M)

BEHIND THE WHEEL/1999 Porsche 911; A Lightning Bolt, Now Water-Cooled

DIVAS are the tornadoes of the performing arts.    So I reflected earlier this month as I listened in awe to the 1961 album, ''Judy Garland at Carnegie Hall,'' while line after line of killer tornadoes swept through the Midwestern and Northeastern United States, destroying houses and leaving hundreds of thousands of people (including me) in the dark.  

Judy Garland As a Force Of Nature

Harvey Araton's Sports of The Times column on many Michael Jordan fans who came to United Center in Chicago to see what could have been Jordan's last basketball game; says celebration of Bulls' sixth NBA championship was delayed by when Utah Jazz defeated Bulls, 83-81, and forced a Game 6 in Salt Lake City (M)

Sports of The Times; Sensing Something Special, a Celebration Is Delayed

Million-dollar homes have become commonplace in most affluent New York suburbs, with more than half of houses on market in some communities priced over $1 million; $1 million price tag no longer necessarily implies luxury living; proportion of $1 million-plus properties is still small in most towns; trend toward buying more costly and larger homes seems to have gained momentum; photos (M)1

A Million-Dollar Home? Ho-Hum.

Pennsylvania Station Redevelopment Corp narrows talks on plans to build new concource and ticketing area for Pennsylvania Station, New York City, to architectural and engineering team led by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill and Parsons Brinckerhoff (S)o

POSTINGS: Selection Narrowed for Post Office Plan; Penn Station Design Team

Will investors buy on stock market dips?    That's the question market watchers ask nervously whenever equities start to look a little wan. And the averages have looked wan for something over a month now. The Dow Jones industrial average closed Friday at 8,834.94, down 2.2 percent for the week.  

Playing With the House's Money

Nigeria stages one of most spectacular games of World Cup soccer, beating Spain, 3-2; photos (M)

Late Surge Helps Nigeria Win Stunner

THAT makes a perfect country club? It should be ''a haven of refuge'' dedicated to ''the genuine care and comfort of our members,'' said Robert H. Dedman Sr., founder and chairman of Club Corporation International, a leading operator of country clubs and other such genteel gathering spots.    It should be a civilized place, he said, one that can be proudly shown to your friends, where the staff addresses you by name -- ''at least four times during each visit'' -- and always remembers your favorite cocktail. And while it should be a place where your opinions are sought and respected, ''a club is not meant to be a debating society and a place of disputation.''  

Bickering In the Clubhouse; Lawsuits Against Golfing Giant Disrupt a Manicured Kingdom

Article on growing popularity of luxury soaps, which can sell for as much as $35 a bar; they are sold in high-end department stores and special soap stores; soap snobbery has trickled down to mass market: Wal-Mart offers 'luxury' bath line, including scented soaps that sell for $1.50 each; photos; drawing (M)

Snob Appeal In the Soap Dish

United American Land LLC unit is converting former bank branch in TriBeCa historic district, New York City, into two floors of retail space; restores facade with alerations approved by Landmarks Preservation Commission; photo (S)

POSTINGS: Ex-Citibank at Canal St. to House Stores; An Old Bank On Broadway Is Going Retail

IT wasn't so long ago that rock-and-roll, symbolized by the primitive, strutting, priapic dance of a surly young man and his guitar, seemed to be an entrenched staple of American culture. In the 1970's and 80's heyday of the hard-rock ''hair band,'' it was easy to imagine an endless stream of sinewy guitar heroes with flowing tresses and bulging crotches passing the Dionysian torch from generation to generation until civilization finally exploded in an apocalyptic blitz of screeching feedback. An immersion in the arena-rock experience, with its beer-guzzling, drug-taking and gladiatorial rowdiness, was a rite of passage for every red-blooded American teen-age boy.    One of the fundamental myths of rock was that it was essentially a man's game, a macho sport that knocked a generation of unctuous crooning mama's boys out of the  batter's box of popular culture and allowed ''real'' men to step to the pop-music plate. Girls who sought membership in this boys' club had better be butch. But even performers like Patti Smith and Joan Jett, who affected male bravado, were never fully accepted into the highest reaches of rock's pantheon.  

Rock Kings, Drag Queens: A Common Strut

More than two years before Election Day, polls show that Texas Gov George W Bush has emerged as front-runner in 2000 Presidential race; there is growing evidence that early polls prove little more than that public has yet to distinguish between Gov Bush and his father, former Pres George H Bush; photos (M)

THE NATION: Oh, THAT George Bush; Wins of the Father Are Visited on the Son

Independent counsel Kenneth W Starr, in interview with magazine Brill's Content, admits that he and his aides have given information on Monica Lewinsky matter to reporters; insists that leaks were neither illegal, because they did not involve testimony before grand jury, nor violation of Justice Dept ethics barring leaks of 'substantive information' about prosecution; defends his actions as necessary 'to engender public confidence in the work of this office'; Steven Brill is author of magazine article (M)

STARR ADMITS ROLE IN LEAKS TO PRESS

 U.S.-China Nuclear Talks  Before a summit meeting in Beijing, the United States and China are trying to work out an agreement to no longer aim nuclear missiles at each other, officials said. Page 18.    Bad Air in Beijing  Beijing has begun providing weekly air quality reports that confirm what many have long believed: that the air in China's cities is among the most polluted in the world. Page 18.    Red Wings Take 3-0 Lead  Sergei Fedorov's late goal gave Detroit a 2-1 victory over the Washington Capitals and put the Red Wings one win from a second straight Stanley Cup. SportsSunday, Section 8.

INSIDE

IN a crowded East Village restaurant called Mekka, Emmanuel Goldstein, 38, is quietly eating chicken wings at a table with nine raucous guys, most of them teen-agers. One of them is on a cell phone that he has programmed to monitor other people's calls. ''Hey, listen to this one,'' he says, passing around the phone. An actress's manager, obviously stressed out, is on the line, discussing the prima donna's rehearsal schedule.

 These young men are hackers, part of a global tribe whose bond is a shared obsession with exploring telephone and computer networks. Almost every week, this group dines out with the brooding, long-haired Mr. Goldstein, the publisher of 2600, a quarterly magazine named after the frequency of a dial tone that is the bible of hackerdom, and the host of a call-in radio show, ''Off the Hook,'' on WBAI. They share news,  hacking tips and tales of their exploits, which can include illegal acts like stealing phone service and breaking into computer networks.

The Good. The Bad. The Geeks.

THIS is the first in an occasional series of talks with people who, in one way or another, have a special connection to art but aren't (primarily) artists themselves: writers, musicians, scientists, politicians, collectors.    David Bowie fits a few of these descriptions. Like other British rockers of his generation (he's 51), he attended art school. He still paints, draws and makes prints. He began collecting when he was young and typifies the new wealth that has so altered the demographics of collecting in the last few decades.  

TALKING ART WITH/David Bowie; A Musician's Parallel Passion

Movie Palace, New York City's last Chinese-language theater, will be demolished and replaced by office building; Chinese immigrants for decades flocked to Chinatown's eight or so movie theaters because movies delivered about only entertainment around and because theaters afforded sense of community and comfort; theater's passing is small milestone in story of Chinese in America, shift toward mainstream that recalls experience of other newcomers who once had thriving theaters too; photo (M)

Movie House, and an Era, Go Dark in Chinatown

Barbara Crossette article contends that rape was used as tactic of warfare in Bosnia, Rwanda and other countries to terrorize and humiliate civilian populations; photo (M)

THE WORLD: Violation; An Old Scourge of War Becomes Its Latest Crime

AFTER a bout of winter blues that has dragged on for much of the last decade, European business has finally come back to life.    The best evidence is in the Continent's stock markets. From Spain to Germany, market indexes have outpaced those in the United States, with some climbing a third or more in just the last six months.  

A Joy Ride, So Far, in Euroland

Timothy Egan, in special report Where Rampages Begin, discusses spate of multiple-victim school shootings over last nine months that left 15 people dead and 42 wounded; children have long killed children in US; peak was 1992-93 school year, when nearly 50 people were killed in school-related violence; most of those killings were in urban schools; what is different now is that shootings are largely rural, have multiple victims and seem to make no sense; many of victims have been shot at random; recent killing sprees share remarkable number of common traits; each case involves child who felt inferior or picked on; killers were able to easily acquire high-powered guns; each killer seems to have been obsessed by violent pop culture, and gave ample warning signs of dramatic violent outbursts to come; photos of student killers Barry Loukaitis, Evan Ramsey, Luke Woodham, Michael Carneal, Andrew Golden, Mitchell Johnson and Kipland Kinkel (M)

WHERE RAMPAGES BEGIN: A special report.; From Adolescent Angst To Shooting Up Schools

MIND ablaze, I ran down to the New York Firefighter's Friend on Lafayette Street last week to buy a blue baseball cap with red letters, FDNY. I told the man behind the counter that I wanted to support the firemen who brawled in Bryant Park. I was afraid the Mayor would overreact, I said, and punish them out of proportion to the crime. After all, they mostly beat up each other.    These bravos rush into burning buildings. Sometimes they don't come out alive. Don't they have a right to let off steam?  

That's Why They Call Them Fire Fighters

India and Pakistan have fought two wars over Kashmir and still have hundreds of thousands of troops arrayed against each other along 550-mile confrontation line; stakes in conflict rose immeasurably in May when first India and then Pakistan conducted nuclear tests and declared themselves nuclear powers; tests raised worldwide alarm, with Pres Clinton and other leaders appealing to India and Pakistan to settle their differences over Kashmir to prevent territory from becoming flashpoint of nuclear war; few people in Indian-controlled Kashmir seem worried about another war; they say that nuclear weapons have made full-scale war unthinkable; both sides seem to be turning away from confrontation; map; photo (M)

On Kashmir's Dividing Line, Nuclear Fears Enforce Calm

Porsche AG and Volkswagen AG announce plans to produce jointly a sport utility vehicle that each would sell by 2002 (S)

June 14, 1998

Headlines from June 14, 1998

From Stylist to Socialite; Hairdressers and makeup artists as social darlings, invited everywhere. (Off duty, of course.)

Defeat Deferred, but Jazz Isn't Smiling Yet

BEHIND THE WHEEL/1999 Porsche 911; A Lightning Bolt, Now Water-Cooled

Judy Garland As a Force Of Nature

Sports of The Times; Sensing Something Special, a Celebration Is Delayed

Billboard 200

City Of Angels

Godzilla -- The Album

It's Dark And Hell Is Hot

The Limited Series

Backstreet Boys

Historical Context for June 14, 1998