The Current Cinema PICNIC ON THE GRASS by Terrence Rafferty.

Comment by Mark Danner. Comment about Haiti. Last month in Port-au-Prince four men carrying automatic weapons, two of whom wore the uniforms of the Haitian Army strolled into the garden of the Hotel Santos, where Haiti's Council of State was meeting with union and business leaders. They asked for Dr. Louis Roy...

The Talk of the Town Dead Reckoning by Caroline Fraser. Talk story about the current exhibition at the New York Public Library, "Portugal-Brazil: The Age of Atlantic Discoveries". It tells about the Portuguese sailors of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries...

The Sporting Scene MIDTERM by Roger Angell. SPORTING SCENE about baseball at mid-season. The early part of the season was dismal for the Yankees and the Mets. The Yankees fired their manager Bucky Dent, replacing him with Stump Merrill. The Mets fired their manager Davey Johnson, replacing him with Bud Harrelson. After giving statistics on home...

Books by Edward Hirsch.

Musical Events by Andrew Porter.

The Talk of the Town Least Conspicuous by Mark Singer. Talk story about Louis Yelnick, a professional page turner for pianists during public performances. Mr. Yelnick has lived in the same house in Seagate, Brooklyn for the past 37 years. He turned pages that day for Alice Levinson, pianist for the Brooklyn Trio. And the performance took place at the...

Reflections DEFINING THE MOMENT by Richard J. Barnet. REFLECTIONS about the post-Cold War period. For more than 40 years the U.S. has maintained plans for fighting the Cold War but there have been no plans for the astounding victory left by the revolution of 1989. The collapse of Communism in Eastern Europe, the radical reforms signalling the...

Fiction The General's Departure by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Saturday, May 8, 1830 finds the General of Colombia surrounded by a small and diminishing band of supporters. And in the final days of his reign, the General slowly locates himself in the situation of his growing decline. He interacts intimately only with Jose Palacios, his oldest servant ant, and...

Poetry Film Noir by John Ashbery. Just the washing of the floors...

Poetry Behind the Beaux-Arts by John Hollander. Framing my windows on the outside of the building are...

Poetry The Noble Corpse by Lizbeth Rosenberg. All the time I was flying...