Profiles THE GREATEST SPORT Medieval Manuscript Cataloguer by Israel Shenker.

The Current Cinema by Pauline Kael.

The Theatre COMICS by Edith Oliver.

A Reporter at Large II-THE EMERGENCY by William Finnegan. Menytioned in REPORTER AT LARGE about Mozambique. Frelimo is the nationalist movement whose guerrillas defeated the Portuguese to win Mozambique's independence in 1975. Reconstituted as a Marxist-Leninist party, it rules to this day. Eduardo Mondlane, an American-educated sociologist, was Frelimo's founding president. Mondlane's wife, Janet, a white American...

Comment by Suzannah Lessard. Comment about how the Bush Administration's lack of response to events in Europe & the Soviet Union gives the impression that its grasp on reality is tenuous. Gorbachev has thrown away the Cold War script & the Bush people don't seem to know it. It brushed aside as irrelevant Gorbachev's...

Dancing by Arlene Croce.

Books by Judith Thurman.

The Talk of the Town House For Sale by Allan Schwartzman. Talk Story about attending a recent sale of an "Important Collection of 20th Century Furniture" at Sotheby's. The final item offered for bidding, & the largest ever auctioned at Sotheby's, is a two-story contemporary townhouse at 242 East 52nd St. designed by Philip Johnson as a guesthouse for Blanchette...

The Talk of the Town NYASk by Mary Norris. Talk story about the New York Area Skeptics. Writer attends a meeting of the NYASk for a lecture by Philip J. Klass, author of "UFO Abductions: A Dangerous Game." Klass is a founding member of CSICOP, the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal. Writer also met...

Musical Events by Andrew Porter.

Fiction Perfect Vision by Julie Hecht. Short story about a thirty-nine year old woman photographer who writes to an estranged friend in Manhattan to warn her about a German optician whom she suspects is a former Nazi...

Poetry Our Origins Are In the Sea Three Poems by Eavan Boland. I live near the coast. On these summer nights...

Poetry The Ignominy of the Living by Kathleen Norris. The undertaker had placed pink netting...

Poetry The Ignominy of the Living by Kathleen Morris. The undertaker had placed pink netting...