Comment by Ian Frazier. Comment about "Auto Exotica," a show of actual and pictured automobiles at the Kodak Photo Gallery at Forty-third and Sixth. The 1906 Pungs-Finch Limited was on exhibit...

Fiction Whither Westway? by James Stevenson. Illustrated piece describing Dunster Associates' ( a fictional research-analysis group located in Cambridge that specializes in urban-planning) alternatives to the controversial and costly Westway project, currently held up by environmentalists. "Airway" would support six lanes of traffic with helium balloons. "Riverway" would involve damming up the Hudson River, rerouting...

Fiction Able, Baker, Charlie, Dog by Stephanie Vaughn. When the narrator was 12, she lived with her parents and complaining grandmother at Fort Niagara, NY, where her father was second in command. He taught her the military alphabet; he was tall and awesome. Recalls various incidents involving the father, including a story he told about two men trapped...

Musical Events by Andrew Porter.

The Talk of the Town Bees by Anthony Hiss. Talk story about Marty Benson, an associate editor of a children's magazine, and her mail order bees which got loose in the Canal Street Post Office. When Benson was trying to decide what to do about the bees, she remembered Thomas Congdon of E.P. Dutton kept bees on the upper...

Dancing by Arlene Croce.

Fiction The Delts of Venus(Selections from Another Volume of Early Writings by Anise Nun) by Charles McGrath. and she liked to bowl for money.. Her father..obtained for Marie a position as a governess in a large house.." One night, unable to sleep thinking of bowling, Marie wakes her charge, Pierre, and teaches him how to bowl. "... Marie showed the boy how to make the 4-10 split...

The Current Cinema by Penelope Gilliatt. Review of Georgi Shengelaya's film, from the Soviet Union, "Pirosmani", which tells the story of the great primitive Georgian painter Nikola Pirosmanishvili, known as Pirosmani, who lived from 1862 to 1918...

The Talk of the Town Kenya by Jamaica Kincaid. Talk story about first Kenya Trade Fair at Coliseum. Statistics about Kenya's geography and population were gathered from a man at the fair. Tells about goods available in Kenya on display at the fair (coffee beans, mushrooms, pasta, talcum powder). Tells about two German missionaries, Johann Ludwig Krapf and Johannes...

The Talk of the Town Music Below by Calvin Tomkins. Talk story about Max Neuhaus, former solo percussionist who now makes sound environments with electronic audio systems. Tells about his Times Square project which makes music under the pedestrian island subway grating on Broadway between 45th and 46th streets. Neuhaus incorporated himself as HEAR (Hybrid Energies for Acoustic Resources) to...

Around City Hall AROUND CITY HALL BRAMBLEBUSH by Andy Logan. The city's representatives in Congress have not helped the Administration in critical congressional votes particularly those involving foreign policy. On May 3 the House International Relations Comm. voted on a bill strongly supported by the Administration, that would end the American embargo on arms for Turkey... In the vote the...

The Talk of the Town Milepost by Anthony Hiss. Talk story about celebration for Ernest M. Frimbo, world's most persistent railway buff, on crossing his two-and-one-half millionth mile on a train. After a night in San Francisco's Hotel Clift, Frimbo boards Amtrak's Coast Starlight from Oakland to Los Angeles, Calif. Passengers surprise Frimbo in dining car...

Poetry The Invention of Cuisine by Carol Muske-Dukes. Imagine for a moment...

Poetry At the Cafe by Howard Moss. At the cafe, at an outdoor table...