The Current Cinema WHITE AND GRAY by Pauline Kael.

Musical Events by Andrew Porter.

Fiction The Golden Years by George Booth. Seven drawings with captions showing various ways to pass retirement time, such as "Recatalogue your library," "Organize a neighborhood think tank", etc...

Fiction Offical Americans by Norman Rush. Carl, 56, working for the Agency for International Development in Botswana, (in southern Africa) is married to Lois, 28, his second wife. He was having trouble sleeping because the Minister of Labor's dogs(next door) barked at night. When he visited the nurse to ask for sleeping pills, he tried...

The Talk of the Town The Museum of Money by Alex Shoumatoff. Talk story about the evolution of the currency of Brazil. When writer was first there, in 1976, the unit of currency, the cruzeiro, fetched 11.3 to the dollar. The largest denomination it came in was the 500-cruzeiro note. In 1984 the rate of exchange was 1800 to the dollar...

Profiles THE GAMEFISH by John Newhouse. PROFILE of Margaret Thatcher, Conservative British Prime Minister. She is a non-establishment, lower middle-class figure. Before she became the leader of the Party in 1975, it was controlled by people of property who contained change by adapting to it. But Mrs. Thatcher is the gamefish in the Pgden...

The Talk of the Town George Rose by Jane Boutwell. Talk story about actor George Rose, now appearing in "The Mystery of Edwin Drood," a musical version of Charles Dickens' unfinished novel... It is this play-within-a-play that provides the framework for one of Broadway's most unpredictable shows. "What makes this show unique is that it involves the...

Books by V. S. Pritchett.

The Talk of the Town Wigs by William McKibben. Talk story about WMCA radio talkmaster Barry Farber & his cassette tape course & about a wig fashion show at Limelight, a Chelsea discotheque. Lately, Barry Farber has been offering listeners a chance to purchase, through the mails, a cassette tape with 25 words that will make them into better...

The Theatre PALLID PINTER by Brendan Gill.

Comment by Henry S. F. Cooper. The space shuttle Challenger exploded shortly after takeoff on Tuesday, Jan. 28, killing all 7 aboard.) Nearly everyone on earth knew that a spacecraft could blow up during its ascent into space-in part, that may have accounted for the fascination with which many people watched launches. In particular, everyone...

Poetry Serenade by James Merrill. Here's you letter the old portable...

Poetry Midnight in February, Green River, Vermont by Cynthia Zarin. When I walked out with you...

Poetry Miniscule Things by William Matthews. There's a crack in this glass so fine we can't see it...