Musical Events by Andrew Porter.

The Art World (The Art Galleries) by Calvin Tomkins.

Jazz by Whitney Balliett.

Around City Hall AROUND CITY HALL A FRIEND INDEED by Andy Logan. About "The Curious Case of Victor Botnick", ex-chairman of the city's Health and Hospitals Corp. Until late this spring anyone who dropped Botnick's name at nearly any gathering in the city would have drawn blank stares, despite the fact that since January Botnick had been chairman of the city's...

The Talk of the Town Right On Target by Lillian Ross. Talk story about Marvin Stuart Traub, 61, chairman & CEO of Bloomingdale's. By 6:45 a.m., 2 Fridays ago, he had got through 3/4 of his twice-a-week hour of exercises. He was standing in the study of his apartment on the 39th floor of a building a few blocks...

The Current Cinema by Pauline Kael.

Comment by Jonathan Schell. Shortly after President Reagan announced that the US would no longer consider itself bound by the provisions of the SALT II treaty, which his Administration had abided by for 5 years, even though the Senate never ratified it, Sec. of Defense Weinberger cast doubt on the future of the ASM...

Books by Naomi Bliven.

The Talk of the Town Senior Prom by Wolcott Gibbs. Talk story about a senior prom that the writer's younger son attended. The writer & his wife browbeat the son into bringing his date along to the house before the festivities began. He is not, to put it diplomatically, greatly attracted to social life or its peculiar requirements...like every...

Annals of Law II-TWO TRIALS by Renata Adler. ANNALS OF LAW about two libel lawsuits One was brought by Gen. Win. C. Westmoreland against CBS for a program in which he was accused of deliberately understating the enemy strength in Vietnam in 1967. The other was brought ny Israeli Gen. Ariel Sharon against "Time" magazine. The CBS program...

Fiction Last Lessons by Daniel Menaker. The writer's elderly Uncle Sol is dying slowly in his Berkshires farmhouse. It is the middle of December & unusually cold... Uncle Sol's doctor, Dr. Kevin Reilly, called writer at home to say that at some point soon Sol would drift into a coma &"just slip away." Writer drives...

Poetry Three Poems by Eamon Grennan. Bright burnished day, they are laying fresh roof down...