The Current Cinema THE CITY GONE PSYCHO by Pauline Kael.

Annals of Intelligence CHANGING TARGETS by John Newhouse. ANNALS OF INTELLIGENCE about terrorism. Four years ago, the FBI took a sombre view of the threat to American civilian and military personnel serving in Europe & the Middle East but judged the US all but invulnerable to Middle East terrorists. At present, however, the locus for terrorism exported from...

Comment by Roger Angell. The other day the Supreme Court affirmed Gregory Lee Johnson's right to burn the American flag if he so desired, because the act was protected under the First Amendment. Writer thinks the Court was saying what he's been trying to say: that the flag is a symbol not of something...

Musical Events by Andrew Porter.

The Talk of the Town Sentimental Guy by Mark Singer. Talk story about Al Guastafeste, a pianist, who, in 1954 spent four days with Marilyn Monroe when she entertained the troops in Korea. Al was music director of the Army Forces Far East Command Special Services Office. Two helicopters full of reporters followed Marilyn on her Korea tour so Al's...

The Talk of the Town Bus Stop by Mindy Aloff. Talk story about the, blessing of a couple of buses on behalf of the School of American Ballet. The ceremony was to be at the Juilliar School at B'way and 66 St. where the school is houses. The buses were to carry 67 advanced S.A.B. students and 15 teachers &...

Fiction What A Sky by Edna O'Brien. The narrator comes from London to visit her elderly father who is in a nursing home in Ireland. He admonishes her for being late & then proceeds to tell her that he plans to visit his best friend, a young nun in New Mexico. When his daughter tries to persuade...

The Talk of the Town Orchids of Hawaii by Jane Stern. Talk Story about Orchids of Hawaii, the coctail-trade company that Nicky & Kim Mumola own. The Mumolas every year sell about 8 million paper parsols for decorating tropical drinks. Most of their customers buy by mail, but nearly everything in the Orchids of Hawaii catalogue is on display in...

Books by John Updike.

Fiction Accidents by Judy Troy. Brent's mother's boyfriend, Mike, picks her up from school the day after her best friend, Jerry Weaver, was killed in a car accident. She tells Mike that her mother doesn't want to get married when he shows her the diamond ring he's just bought. Brent's mother was the supervisorof the...

A Reporter at Large PENGUINS by Diane Ackerman. REPORTER AT LARGE about penguins. At San Diego's Sea World writer visits a laboratory where she observes king-penguin chicks, six weeks old. When their natural mothers laid the eggs on the sub-Antarctic island of South Georgia, it was too late in the season for most of the chicks...

Books by John Updike.

Books by John Updike.

The Theatre FAT KING by Edith Oliver.

In Fashion IN FASHION FOR BETTER OR WORSE by Holly Brubach. Entire column devoted to wedding gowns...

Poetry Mood Indigo by William Matthews. From the porch; from the hayrick where her prickled...

Poetry Flower Feet by Ruth Fainlight. Real women's feet wore these objects...

Poetry Four Appaloosas by Stanley Plumly. First the glycerin, green transparency of rain...