The Talk of the Town High Energy by George W. S. Trow. Talk story about Aerosmith and Rick Derringer, in concert at Madison Square Garden. Daniel Middleton, an 11 year old friend of the writer, who lives beside the Hudson River, in Dutchess County, attended the concert. Writer took him backstage where he met Rick Derringer...

The Theatre HAVING A GOOD TIME by Brendan Gill.

The Talk of the Town Results by Mark Singer. Talk story about the posting of the names, by the State Board of Law Examiners, of those who have passed New York's bar exam. The results are published in the "New York Times" and the "New York Law Journal." On the night before this December's results were published, writer went...

The Talk of the Town Dutch by Geoffrey T. Hellman. Talk story about the current exhibitions at She New York- Historical Society, "The Dutch Republic in the Days of John Adams," put together by the Netherlands Bicentennial Committee, in Holland, and brought to the Historical Society by the Smithsonian Institution Travelling Exhibition Service. On display are portraits, landscapes, political cartoons...

The Talk of the Town The Way To go by Anthony Hiss. Talk story about the Solex 4600, a motorized bicycle, which may also be pedalled, imported by Motobecane America, Ltd. The Solex weighs 68 pounds, retails for about $320.00, and gets about 50 miles to a third of a gallon. It is also known as a Moped...

Comment by Ian Frazier. The telephone number of the N.Y. office of the American Revolution Bicentennial Administration, 264-1976, is no longer in service. It is now no longer the Bicentennial Year. In case you missed it, it went something like this: writer goes over the year's highlights. The Bicentennial started out interesting, became tedious...

Fiction Mythology, Art, And The Farming Life by James McConkey. Fourteen years ago, the narrator moved, with his wife and children, to a farm outside Ithaca, N.Y. He is a "gentleman farmer", earning his real living as a college professor at a nearby university. He greatly admires his neighbors, Joan and Hayden Wilcox, who are dairy farmers, and who have...

The Current Cinema Here's to the Big One by Pauline Kael. Review of "King Kong", directed by John Guillermin...

The Air (On Television) Hosts and Guests by Michael J. Arlen.

Musical Events C Major at the Close by Andrew Porter.

Letter from Australia by Shirley Hazzard. In 1901 the so-called White Australia Policy was consolidated, which, by extension, condemned Australia's black aboriginal population to a segregated limbo, from which it began to emerge only in the nineteen-seventies, and to which it is now apparently being reconsigned. The aboriginal population of Australia, though variously estimated...

Fiction Tuesday Night by Ann Beattie. The narrator, who now lives with her friend, Dan, has recently divorced her husband, Henry. Every Tuesday night, Henry takes their daughter, Joanna, out to a French restaurant. Since Dan works late on Tuesdays, the narrator decides that she wants to spend every Tuesday night alone. Her brother, Bobby, is...

Books Oracular Oates by Susan Lardner.

Poetry Illumination by Louise Gluck. My son stands in the snow in his blue snowsuit...

Poetry The Map by Gary Soto. When the sun's whiteness closes around us...

Poetry Pot Roast by Mark Strand. I gaze upon the roast...