The Theatre Off Broadway by Edith Oliver.

The Talk of the Town Big by Jonathan Schell. Talk story about The Monumental Show, a display of six dozen huge art works and works of performance art in a former munitions factory around the Gowanus Canal area in Brooklyn. Among the artists was Boris Zeldin, preparer of "Deep-Fried Books". He is from Russia where you can't fry...

The Talk of the Town Small by James Stevenson. Illustrated Talk story about the smallest sidewalk cafe in Manhattan (if it is a cafe). It lies only a few blocks away from the crowded outdoor cafes of Columbus Ave. It has no visible name and has never had any customers but it displays a lot more style, color, and...

Fiction At the Beach by Alice Adams. Everyone at the resort, which is in Mexico, is curious about the very old couple. Tall and thin, they seem themselves to notice no one at all. They are probably in their eighties. Amanda is at the resort with her lover, Richard, who is married and younger than she is...

Comment by Jamaica Kincaid. Comment about daring things prompted by the story of a daring prison escape by helicopter in France. Writer makes her list of daring things. After each one she appends the phrase: "so daring I'm all for it." Some of the things on the list are: A Secretary of the Interior...

Books Two Novels by V. S. Pritchett.

Musical Events Hooking Leviathan by Andrew Porter.

U. S. Journal THE TUNICA TREASURE by Calvin Trillin. U.S. JOURNAL: LOUISIANA about the Tunica Treasure. In 1968, in a meadow along the Mississippi River, Leonard Charrier discovered the mid-18th century village of the Tunica Indians, and unearthed a collection of artifacts, unmatched in North America as a record of the contact between the natives of the continent...

The Current Cinema PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG GADGETEER by Pauline Kael.

Comment by Kennedy Fraser. There are moments when this city can jolt us with the certainty that we'd rather be alive right here and now than anywhere else on earth at any time whatever. Such a moment stretched to a radiant half hour one recent evening as we strolled up Fifth Avenue from our...

Letter from Israel by Robert Shaplen. In national elections June 30, Prime Minister Begin's Likud coalition received 48 seats in the 120-member Knesset, while the Labor Party alignment, headed by Shimon Peres, won 47. As neither party received a majority, the bargaining power of the two principal religious parties, the National Religious Party and Aguda...

Fiction The Inflating by James Munves. Parody about inflation, the devaluation of the dollar, in the form of a screenplay with a supernatural plot. Opening scene shows the Dollar family-Federal Reserve, (known as F.R.), and his wife, Silver, in their backyard. Silver is pregnant, and their kindly neighbors, Arthur and Beatrice Banks, look over the...

Dancing The Royal at Fifty by Arlene Croce.

Jazz Down the River by Whitney Balliett.

The Talk of the Town Zoo Party by Jane Boutwell. Talk story about a party that the Bronx Zoo gave on July 14, at dusk, an hour after it had closed for the day. The festivities began at Wild Asia Plaza. Dr. William Conway, the general director of the Zoo, announced that the program included a trip through Wild Asia...

Poetry Sunset Scrupulously Observed by Robert Penn Warren. A flycatcher, small, species not identified, is perched...