Comment by Garrison Keillor. Comment about the panic ensuing when"The War of the Worlds"was broadcast by Orson Welles, in 1938, the 50th anniversary celebration of the panic in Grover's Mills, NJ, & the present Presidential election... The broadcast of 1938 crossed a line between entertainment & news, which has since become blurred...

The Current Cinema by Terrence Rafferty.

The Theatre AT THE CROWN by Edith Oliver.

Profiles AN ARCHITECTURE OF POSSIBILITIES by Lincoln Caplan. PROFILE of British architect Richard Rogers, who describes himself as "the last of the late modernists". He is the architect of the new headquarters for Lloyd's of London & the co-architect with his former partner, Renzo Piano, of the Pompidou Center, known as Beaubourg, after its Paris neighborhood. When...

The Talk of the Town Twister by Adam Gopnik. Talk story about tornado artist Ned Kahn who just created an exhibit of a tornado at the Great Hall, a vault which rests at the top of the Hall of Science building in Flushing Queens. (This building was designed for the '64 World's Fair by the architects Harrison & Abramovitz...

Concert Records / Popular Music by Mark Moses.

Fiction Another Time by Edna O'Brien. In London Nelly needs desperately to get away and decides to visit an Irish seaside hotel she yearned to go to as a child hoping it will restore her to her former cheerful self. Her first evening there is a disaster, but in the morning things are"different--sparkling." She...

Fiction Work by Denis Johnson. After a fight with his girlfriend, the derelict narrator leaves the Holiday Inn where they'd been shooting heroin for the last three days. He goes to the Vine, a local bar, where he meets Wayne who asks him if he'd like to make some money. They drive out of town...

The Talk of the Town Crowd Control by Richard Brookhiser. Talk story about the Greenwich Village Halloween Parade. Time was when the parade was a small town affair, now it has gone big time and police are needed to control the crowds. Writer accompanies a serageant of the Auxiliary Police Force in the Sixth Precinct for this year's parade. Writer...

Letter from Pakistan by Mary Anne Weaver. Two weeks after the death of President Zia, writer went to the Ministry of Defense to try to find out what might happen next in Pakistan. Politically, there were only two choices: elections or another coup. Would the generals permit Benazir Bhutto, 35, the daughter & political heir of the...

Musical Events by Andrew Porter.

Poetry Between Angels by Stephen Dunn. Between angels, on this earth...

Poetry The River by Eavan Boland. You brought me...

Poetry As Far As It Goes, And Back by Eleanor Wilner. Tearing through the lovaly landscape...