The Current Cinema AFTERGLOW by Terrence Rafferty.

Portrait Big Picture by Guy Trebay. Talk story about the Big Picture, a town portrait taken of the citizenry of Rhinebeck, NY on Sun. July 3rd at 1:45 pm, one of many events marking the 300th anniversary of the town's incorporation. The tercentenary committee is chaired by Jeanne Fleming, who claimed the photo had "a 5,000...

The Talk of the Town Arenaball by Adam Gopnik. Talk story about arena football, which is played indoors during the summer on a fifty-yard field with nets. There are six teams, which the writer lists; this is the New York Knights' first season. Writer decided to go and see their last home game of the season, against the...

The Theatre CLIP AND SAVE by Mimi Kramer.

Books by David Thomson.

The Sporting Scene THE COUNTRY CLUB AND THE OPEN by Herbert Warren Wind. The SPORTING SCENE about the U.S. Open Golf Championship. Ouimet won the championship in 1913 when he was 20, in a playoff battle that put golf on the front pages of American newspapers. Ouimet is credited with popularizing golf in the U.S. as a result of his victory over two...

Fiction White Angel by Michael Cunningham. Story about 9-year-old Robert ("Frisco") Morrow and his 16 year old brother Carlton. They live in Cleveland, OH with their schoolteacher parents during the sixties; their suburban neighborhood is next to a cemetery. The boys use drugs but Carlton is careful not to give Frisco too much; they...

Comment by Richard Brookhiser. Some thoughts on the effects of light in Manhattan. The quality of light is just as remarkable as that analyzed by scholars in the paintings of the Hudson River School and should be appreciated just as much. Writer says that modern architecture has taken away many interesting shadows because buildings...

A Reporter at Large CROWN OF THORNS by Daniel Ford. REPORTER AT LARGE about the Great Barrier Reef & the threat to it from coral-eating crown of thorns starfish. The Reef stretches down the northeastern coast of Australia for some 1200 miles. The coral rock now in place forms a structure larger than all man-made structures on earth...

Dancing by Arlene Croce.

The Talk of the Town Aqua Massage by Nancy Ramsey. Talk story about Futureshape International salons and the recently invented Aqua Massage--"a full -body water massage but you don't get wet." Writer received an invitation to experience this. Candice Boyne, a VP of the co, which she and her husband founded 5 yrs. ago, said they have more than...

In Fashion IN FASHION: CAMELOT by Holly Brubach. IN FASHION about the designer Perry Ellis who is subject of new book by Jonathan Moor and which, the writer says, belabors the controversy surrounding his death, allegedly from AIDS, in May, 1986. Ellis grew up in Virginia, received a B.A. in business from William and Mary College, and went...

Poetry Amor Fati by Katha Pollitt. Everywhere I look I see my fate...