The Theatre by Edith Oliver.

The Talk of the Town Waltzing by Jane Boutwell. Talk story about the Philharmonic Ball at the Grand Promenade of Avery Fisher Hall, an event that was held to raise funds for the orchestra. It took the form of an elaborate Viennese evening (at $500 dollars a ticket) that consisted of a reception, a dinner, entertainment (some Joffrey Ballet...

Onward and Upward with the Arts III-CABLE by Thomas Whiteside. ONWARD AND UPWARD WITH THE ARTS about cable television. At the beginning of the 80s publicity about the expansion of cable TV was making an impression on many people concerned about the programming standards of commercial TV. To many it seemed that cable would convey to home screens on a...

Books by Naomi Bliven.

Comment by William McKibben. A friend writes about a recent trip he took to Selma, Alabama, where significant events in the civil-rights struggle took place in the sixties. Writer saw an article in the Montgomery Advertiser about the all-white Dallas County Commission voting to install Tommy Powell as tax collector. The job...

The Talk of the Town Transplant by William McKibben. Talk story about Thomas Winship, who quit the Boston Globe on Dec. 31st, after 20 years as editor. Winship, who took a newspaper that ran advertisements on the front page&guided it to 12 Pulitzers, moved to N.Y. on Jan. 1rst. He began his 2nd career, starting a center...

Fiction Women by Saul Steinberg. Eight drawings of women's faces...

The Art World (The Art Galleries) by Calvin Tomkins.

The Current Cinema SLAPHAPPY AND NOT SO HAPPY by Pauline Kael.

Fiction In Country by Bobbie Ann Mason. Samantha Hughes was 17&lived in Hopewell, with her 35-year-old Uncle Emmett. Emmett was her mother Irene's brother. He'd lived with Sam ever since he came back from Vietnam. Sam's father, Dwayne, didn't come back. He was killed in Vietnam be fore Sam was born. Last year...

The Talk of the Town Buoyant by William McKibben. Talk story about Michael Hutchison. His"Book of Floating" was just reissued. It actually came out a year ago, when flotation centers-commercial operations with a number of the sensory-deprivation tanks available for use by the hour were opening across the country. You float on your back in the...

Poetry Reviving the Geyser, Reykjavik, Iceland, 1935 by Linda Bierds. One man in a derby hat, another...