Comment by Adam Gopnik. Comment from a Downtown friend, on the threatened closing of a "mini-pool," set in the middle of a chain-link-fenced asphalt playground on the northwest corner of Thompson and Spring. The writer, who lives about three blocks away, tells about the people, including Senegalese soccer players, who frequent...

The Talk of the Town Young, Restless, Bold, Beautiful by Caroline Fraser. Talk story about the Second Annual Save the Earth Celebrity Luncheon at the Plaza Hotel, which featured stars from several popular daytime soap operas, The "Bold and the Beautiful" and "The Young and the Restless". After the luncheon an auction was held. Articles of clothing worn by the actors, autographed...

The Talk of the Town E.V. vs. I.C.E. by John Seabrook. Title of an exhibition covered in talk story. The exhibition featured electric, solar, and human-powered vehicles, and was held at the Municipal Art Society, at Madison and Fifty-first St. The article mentions the merits of electric vehicles, as opposed to the internal combustion engine, and the exhibit shows...

The Talk of the Town Interview by Adam Gopnik. Talk story consisting of an interview with Bruno Lion, a member of the French Ministry of Culture whose official title is Charge de Mission pour le Rock, la Chanson, et les varietes. He came to New York to attend a festival of French popular music, in Central Park. When asked...

Fiction Nymph & Faun by Edith Templeton. At her home in Bordighea on the Italian Riviera, Mrs. Richardes, the 52-year-old widow of an elderly, retired, British physician, receives a phone call from a worker for Brentford's, the Geneva auction house she has contacted to help her sell some of her husband's silver. The voice on...

A Reporter at Large AIR WARS by John Newhouse. REPORTER AT LARGE about U.S.-British negotiations about which two U.S. airlines should be allowed to fly into & out of London's Heathrow Airport, the world's busiest international hub. There were 6 rounds of talks lasting 3 1/2 months before agreement was reached. Access to Heathrow from the U.S. was...

The Theatre ON THE EDGE by Mimi Kramer.

Dancing by Arlene Croce.

Letter from Washington by Elizabeth Drew. Three dramatic events have come along: the sudden new trouble surrounding the nomination of Robert Gates to head the C.I.A., new developments in the mysterious and ominous story of the Bank of Credit & Commerce International, and the President's controversial nomination of Clarence Thomas to succeed Thurgood Marshall on the...

Books by David Cannadine.

Poetry Stone Village by W. S. Merwin. At the first sight of the old walls the rain...

Poetry Mr. Cogito Looks at a Deceased Friend by Zbigniew Herbert. He breathed heavily...