Fiction Bogota by James Munves. Joseph is an ornithologist living in Columbia. He is in the National University's Department de Ornitologia. He has been involved with Bonita, who is younger than his daughter Patricia. Bonita is a nurse he met in Cuernavaca, where they were both learning Spanish. She works in a clinic there, and...

The Talk of the Town Focussed by William McKibben. Talk story about a visit to the Boss Club, which opened last month and operates one night a week at an upper east side night spot, Freckles, that used to be called Scotland Yard. "The original Boss Club is in Los Angeles," said Peter Martin, a Tenefly, New Jersey, native...

Comment Comment, Pt. II by William McKibben. A friend of ours-and a friend of the Constitution, too-- writes: I made a rare trip to Washington, DC in the middle of the month & being early for an appointment, found myself wandering the corridors of the Rayburn House Office Building. One thing I like about the Capitol...

Musical Events by Andrew Porter.

Fiction The Teen-age National Debt by George W. S. Trow. Parody about our economy and people getting in debt. Begins with outline for a 2-hour documentary that is a commentary Opens with "True Tales of the NIGHT." Shows graphics of how money is spent in 1986; where it comes from and where it goes (over half comes from thin...

The Talk of the Town Ferryboat Comeback by Anthony Hiss. Talk story about the Port Imperial, a brand-new Hudson river ferryboat that is now making the three-quarter mile long trip between West Thirty-eighth St. & a pier in Weehawken in 3 minutes flat. It has a zippy, dashing feeling about it which immediately sets it apart from...

Comment Comment, Pt. I by Jonathan Schell. Comment about the Constitution, and how it should be obeyed; if it had been then the three worst Post-World War II political crises could have been avoided --McCarthyism, Vietnam and Watergate, and the present one of our attempts to ransom hostages with arms sales to Iran and to illegally...

Conversations II-CONVERSATIONS WITH KIRSTEIN by McNeil Lowry. PROFILE of Lincoln Kirstein general director of the N.Y.C. Ballet & President of the School of American Ballet. Writer quotes from conversations with Kirstein over an 8 month period beginning in Nov., 1983 when Kirstein was 76 years old. He had a unique role in the arts over the last...

American Chronicles THE LIFE AND TIMES OF JOE BOB BRIGGS, SO FAR by Calvin Trillin. AMERICAN CHRONICLES about Joe Bob Briggs, a fictional red-neck drive-in movie reviewer created by Dallas "Times Herald" reporter John Bloom, who proved to be very popular... The problem was how to deal with trashy "exploitation" movies... Bloom made a proposal: He could review the sort of movies that...

Poetry Secrets by Deborah Digges. The lights in front of the hospital shine...