Fiction The Secretary by Debby Mayer. The secretary works for a man who is most often called"he" He dictates memos & letters into a machine & with earphones & a foot pedal she transcribes them. She may listen to his voice for hours, but they see each other only for 5 minutes during the working...

The Current Cinema by Terrence Rafferty.

Musical Events by Winthrop Sargeant.

The Talk of the Town Women in Metal by George W. S. Trow. Talk story about attending a music-business convention panel discussion called "Women in Metal" about female "Heavy Metal" rock groups... There are two kinds of women musicians who are in Metal: those women who front a Metal band composed of men & those who perform in all-girl Metal Bands...

Letter from Europe by Jane Kramer. The Kreuzberg section of West Berlin is the most freewheeling anarchic quarter of a city not noted for conformity. Hartmut Bitomsky lived there. He was a filmmaker. He found that there were literally rooms of uncatalogued Nazi propaganda films in Koblenz. It was not military or political propaganda but it...

The Talk of the Town Passion by Brendan Dealy. Talk story about Andrew Miscioscia & his wife Kim's Gallery of Dimensional Arts in East Norwich, L.I. which is also known as Blueberries' Etc. Etc. Etc. Miscioscia also owns a gourmet supermarket, Blueberries', in the East Norwich Shopping Center, two stores away from the gallery. All the gallery's Dimensional Art...

The Talk of the Town Dirt by Guy Trebay. Talk story about the forces that make dirt happen at Madison Square Garden. One of those forces is Hermann Duckek, whose business card calls him a "Footing Advisor: Equestrian Sports;" he was the soil man--the footing expert--at the Seoul Olympics. He was at Madison Square Garden earlier this...

Comment by Lincoln Caplan. Comment about the U.S. Budget deficit & mergers... Tells about the RJR Nabisco takeover bidding. "People all over the country are wondering whether takeover mania has finally gone too far, threatening the economic health of the country," the "Times" reported. Observers have expressed similar concerns regularly during the previous waves...

The Theatre A MAN FOR ALL SEASONS by Edith Oliver.

Fiction Flowers by Judy Troy. Nina, athirteen year old, helps her Uncle Kevin sell silk flowers at the El Con Mall near Tucson on weekends. She develops a crush on Martin, another vendor at the mall who sells paintings on velvet. This particular Saturday Nina is eating dinner at Kevin & her Aunt Trudy's (Kevin's...

Profiles II-THE PRODIGAL by Arlene Croce. PROFILE of ballet dancer & director of the Miami City Ballet Edward Villella & discussion of the Balanchine ballet, "The Prodigal Son" which Villella is closely associated with. Tells how a breech formed between Balanchine & Villella after Villella started taking ballet classes with Stanley Williams instead of Balanchine. Gives...

Poetry Condo Moon by John Updike. When plans were announced to tear down...

Poetry Local Journal by Charles Wright. November in afterpiece...