Comment by Ronnie Dugger. Comment about potentially unpopular actions taken by President Reagan directly after the election... The day after the election, President Reagan vetoed a bill that would have established a program of grants to monitor the nutritional quality of the food Americans eat. On Thursday, the second day after the election, the...

The Talk of the Town Outdoor by Mark Singer. Talk story about Angelo J. Schifano, a billboard company executive & a birthday celebration for him. Only Angelo J. Schifano could take a ride along the Bruckner Express-way last week & see a billboard, a 14-by-48-footer, atop a building at the corner of 149th & Bruckner...

The Talk of the Town Angels by Naomi Bliven. Talk story about Corporate Angel Network(CAN)--an organization which arranges transportation for cancer patients. Writer visits CAN's headquarters at the Westchester County Airport in White Plains to talk with Priscilla(Pat) Blum & Jay Weinberg, the Network's president &vice president who saw a provlem &devised a solution...

The Talk of the Town Cinderella by Gwen Kinkead. Talk Story about shoe model Barbara Ware& her perfect size 6B feet. The writer watches Ware in action as she tests 3 pairs of flats that Silbergeld, owner of Prevata with offices at 12 West 57th St., is getting ready to produce. Ware disapproves all 3 for what Silbergeld...

Personal History PARADISE by Eva Hoffman. PERSONAL HISTORY about leaving Poland. Writer, a Jew, was 13 in 1959 when she & her family emigrated from Poland to Canada, much to her sorrow. On the deck of the departing ship she was filled with what she was about to lose-images of Krakow, which she loved as...

Fiction On Earth by John Holman. Sam works as a machinist's assistant at a rock quarry. At 19 he left home, moved to another town 90 miles away& began night classes. Going to night school will enable him to get a promotion to full machinist. It will be his ticket out of the quarry, a...

Musical Events by Andrew Porter.

The Sporting Scene HARD TIMES (THE MOVIE) by Roger Angell. THE SPORTING SCENE about the 1988 World Series which the Dodgers won. Writer opens story with a "movie deal" type memo describing the opening game of the series. While the Dodgers were administering their unexpected drubbing to the Oakland Athletics in the brusque, five-game World Series this fall, the...

Fiction Are You My Friend? by George W. S. Trow. Self satisfied, smug narrator delivers a monologue to a prospective friend. He lays down the various demands & criteria a friend of his must meet while at the same time insisting that he"stands with the common man." He says, "I'd like a friend of mine to own his own...

Poetry The Yellow Plate by Ruth Fainlight. A painted plate, yellow-glazed below...

Poetry Every Blessed Day by Philip Levine. First with a glass of water...