The Sporting Scene BIRD AND BOSTON by Herbert Warren Wind. THE SPORTING SCENE mainly about Larry Bird, a basketball player with the Boston Celtics. Bird joined the Celtics in the fall of 1979. At the end of his high school season, the 6'7" senior was in touch with more than 200 college coaches. He was eventually enrolled in Indiana...

The Current Cinema TWITS, TURTLES, CREEPS by Pauline Kael.

Comment Comment, Pt. I by Burton Bernstein. A letter from a friend in Connecticut: Hey, it's spring out here. The birds that hung around all winter are singing, the snow and ice are melting, tiny buds are budding, and I've just received in the mail my Spring Handbook from the Lloyd Home & Building Centers, Inc. The...

Books by Tony Gibbs.

The Theatre by Edith Oliver.

The Talk of the Town Questions by James Stevenson. Talk story that begins with "Q"s mostly without "A"s (from a man walking up Sixth Avenue in sleet): Why don't I have an umbrella? Where did I leave my hat?... Why are there so many stores that develop film quickly? Who needs to have his or her pictures...

Fiction Caravaggio by Bill Barich. Story about a 19-year-old American named James whose parents finally agreed to support him for six months while he went to Florence to study art. He rents a room in a pensione and takes classes at the university, where he meets a new friend, Aldo. The pensione is...

The Talk of the Town Non-Stop by Mark Singer. Talk story about Raffaella Carra, who is the star of a weekly Italian variety show on t.v. called "Buonasera, Raffaella," and her interveiw on the Today Show with Bryant Gumbel to promote 3 weeks in New York where she will be broadcasting her show live from a studio in Long...

Comment Comment, Pt. II by Lillian Ross. The writer states: At the 83rd annual American International Toy Fair, held in this city last month, we sat down to rest--in a corner of the Coleco display devoted to a new line of plastic war toys: Rambo and his Force of Freedom. What we sat down on was...

The Talk of the Town Nice Little Bank, Pt. I by Mark Singer. Two-part talk story about the National Bank of New York City, a small Flushing, Queens, bank. Every couple of weeks, the front page of the "New York Law Journal" features a small advertisement for National Bank of New York City, an institution with offices in Queens and Manhattan... Each...

A Reporter at Large AMAZONS by Alex Shoumatoff. REPORTER AT LARGE about a trip up the Nhamunda River in Brazil, a tributary of the Amazon River. The Nhamunda is thought to be the home of the legendary Indian tribe that consisted only of women & children - the Amazons. The first Europeans to travel the length of the Amazon...

Fiction Magnolia by Vicki Covington. Narrator is the only one in her age group who still drives. Her husband, Scotty, died when she was 50. Although he was a drunk, he died of a heart attack when they were visiting the youngest of their 3 children, Jackie, in Florida. Jackie used to be a preacher...

Poetry Cutlery by Raymond Carver. Trolling the coho fly 20 feet behind the boat...