Profiles LOUISIANA IN DENMARK by Lawrence Weschler. PROFILE of Knud Jensen, founder and director of the Louisiana Museum, in Humlebaek, Denmark. The museum's name came with the estate it was built on, which was named after the three wives of Alexander Brun, the estate's founder. (Each of whom was named Louise.) Jensen began his career as a...

Fiction Kemp, Dent in Reagan Plans by Veronica Geng. Parody of two things: the recent baseball trade in which the Yankees gave away Bucky Dent, and the abandonment by the Reagan Administration of "supply-side" economics, a policy whose chief spokesman was Rep. Jack Kemp. In the story Bucky Dent is given to the Republican team while the Yankees...

The Talk of the Town Eleven Thousand Lawyers by Lillian Ross. Talk story about a visit to San Francisco where the American Bar Association was holding its 104th annual meeting--the largest one in its history. Eleven thousand lawyers, plus their families were on hand. Writer decided to go to the A.B.A. Opening Assembly at the San Francisco Opera House for...

The Talk of the Town Saratoga by James Stevenson. Illustrated talk story about a couple of days writer spent in Saratoga, N.Y. Writer went to the Fasig-Tipton Saratoga Yearling Sales, held in a pavilion a block away from the race track. Around sixty yearlings went under the hammer. At one point the announcer impatiently halted the bidding on...

A Reporter at Large I-ISLANDS OF DISENCHANTMENT by Robert Shaplen. REPORTER AT LARGE about Hawaii. 23 years after it achieved statehood, the political logic and the economic and social benefits of becoming the 50th state are regarded with growing skepticism by many of its 980,000 citizens. The social climate and the economic health of the Pacific-island state are suffering...

Fiction The Line by James Robison. A Boston man, whose wife left him over a month ago, tells the story of his day. He begins his narrative on the Boston ferry as he commutes to work. He watches the other commuters closely. He notices women he thinks he'd like to talk to. He goes out for...

Comment by Faith McNulty. The other day, we saw the following headline in the Providence "Sunday Journal": PENTAGON STRATEGISTS ENVISION VICTORY WITH LOSS OF NO MORE THAN 20 MILLION LIVES The information in this headline has been widely disseminated, but we haven't seen it expressed anywhere else with such calm simplicity. As we said...

Jazz by Whitney Balliett. Complete column on the life and career of Ornette Coelman, composer, saxophonist, trumpeter, and violinist. His new group, Prime Time, is made up of a Buddhist, a Muslim, a punk-rocker, and his son Denardo...

Poetry Photographic Plate, Partly Spidered: Hampton Roads, Virginia, With Model T Ford Mid-Channel by Dave Smith. No one alive has seen such ice but the five-mile floor...

Poetry False Spring: Late Snow Four Poems by Dave Smith. Everything in the village seemed to dance...

Poetry By-Blows by Mark Jarman. They wake like opening sea anemones...