The Current Cinema by Michael Sragow.

Comment by Garrison Keillor. Comment about finding an elderly Puerto Rican woman, Consuelo Parra, who was born in Arecibo., Puerto Rico, on Nov. 5, 1092, the youngest in a family of 4 girls and 1 boy. She worked as a seamstress until she was almost 80. The police came into the restaurant where writer...

The Talk of the Town Magic by Adam Gopnik. A talk story about airbrushes. "Airbrush Action," a magazine based in Lakewood, New Jersey is the airbrush bible. "The obnoxious definition of an airbrush is 'a penlike instrument that atomizes paint, Stieglitz likes to say. He is the publisher. "This is our seventh year. And when we got started everything...

The Talk of the Town Optimism by George W. S. Trow. Talk story about Ann-Margret and "Life" magazine of Jan. 11, 1963, which pictures her on the cover. Not long ago writer was in a hotel room talking with Ann-Margret. He has been thinking about the experience in reference to Hollywood, the automobile industry, and American optimism. Tells how...

The Talk of the Town Unsolicited by David McCormick. Talk story about a Congressman coming to the aid of an anxious author. The other day the phone rang at "The New Yorker". It was Rick Santorum's office, Congressman Rick Santorum, of the 18th Congressional District in suburban Pittsburgh. One of Mr. Santorum's constituents asked that he look into the...

Fiction That's No Fun by Julie Hecht. Short story about a woman photographer and her husband going to a wooded neighborhood to dine at the home of a Swedish woman and her husband and young children...

Profiles OUTSIDER THE GIFT-I by Marshall Frady. PROFILE of Jesse Jackson. He was born, illegitimate, in the most impoverished pocket of the black quarter of Greenville, South Carolina; it was when he began to mount a voter-registration campaign among the poor and disenfranchised in the summer of 1983 that he found he was creating his own...

The Theatre REVISIT by Edith Oliver.

Musical Events by Andrew Porter.

In Fashion Sackcloth and Ashes by Holly Brubach.

Books mr. lower case by Brad Leithauser.

Poetry The Phantom Agents by John Ashbery. We need more data re our example, Earth--how it would behave...

Poetry The Coptic Wedding by Ruth Fainlight. Decades go by, yet I keep mouthing...