The Talk of the Town Multisensory by Hendrik Hertzberg. Talk story about "The New York Experience," a multi-sensory show, and its writer/designer/director, Rusty Russell. The show, which utilizes film, slides, fog & bubble machines, opened last week in the McGraw-Hill building, on Sixth Avenue, between 48th and 49th Streets. Tells about the new theatre built...

The Current Cinema Everyday Inferno by Pauline Kael. In review of "Mean Streets" Graham Greene is quoted twice. First what he said in a film review in 1935; then from his prescription for movies, which writer says fits "Mean Streets" almost perfectly...

The Talk of the Town Senza Rancor by Jane Boutwell. Talk visit to the State Theatre where the N.Y.C. Opera was recovering from a 24-day orchestra strike. As a result of the strike, one-third of the company's scheduled season was dropped, one reason being that the City Opera has always been pretty much a shoestring operation. Ticket prices...

The Theatre Off Broadway by Edith Oliver.

Fiction The Sports Chemist by Penelope Gilliatt. Ned, a research chemist, son and nephew of two eccentric old British ladies, lives (in common-law) with Poll. She is younger, athletic, and somewhat outrageous...most of the things that Ned is not. Ned and Poll visit his mother, who spends her time doing one legged ballet, eating lettuce...

The Sporting Scene THE FIRST HUNDRED YEARS by Herbert Warren Wind. THE SPORTING SCENE about tennis in 1973--Wimbledon, the U.S. Open at Forest Hills, & the Billie Jean King-Bobby Riggs match, won by Mr. King; and about the beginnings of tennis, invented in 1873 by Maj. Walter Wingfield. Writer visits Wingfield Castle & Nantclwyd Hall in Wales, where the...

Profiles I-A COUNTERVAILING FORCE by Thomas Whiteside. PROFILE of Ralph Nader, 39, consumer activist, who first came into the public eye in 1965, 7 years after graduation from Harvard Law School, with the publication of of his book "Unsafe at Any Speed", a critique of the auto industry's shortcomings in safe car design. He believes in the...

The Talk of the Town Out of History by Lillian Ross. Talk story about the dedication of Franklin Delano Roosevelt Island (formerly Welfare Island) last week. Present was Mr. Heckscher, who just wrote a book, "Alive in the City...

Fiction Elisha Hospital by Mark Helprin. They are building a new wing on Elisha Hospital. Blue is the predominant color. The author works at the hospital, and it is there that he has met his wife. He has been in war, but not in the thick of it. He is not concerned by governments, nor they...

Comment by Jeremy Bernstein. Comment about various events covered on TV news on Tuesday, Sep. 25. It was Willie Mays Night at Shea Stadium...

Poetry Address To The Beasts by W. H. Auden. For us who, from the moment...