Onward and Upward with the Arts HEAR by Calvin Tomkins. ONWARD AND UPWARD WITH THE ARTS about sound environment artist artist Max Neuhaus. He is a maker of "sound environments"--places whose ambiance is defined or altered by the electronic sound systems he secretes within them. Tells about an installation in Times Square, on the narrow pedestrian island that separates...

The Talk of the Town Extra Virgin by Brendan Dealy. Talk story about olive oil... Writer visited the Market-place in Macy's Cellar. Lee Iacocca was there with family members, to display Villa Nicola his new line of Italian gourmet foods, and, in particular tell of his extra-virgin olive oil. A sign on a table with food made with...

Comment by Daniel Ford. Comment about watching the Frederick Wiseman movie, "Missile"which was recently shown on PBS... The film tells about a 14-week training program, with Wiseman's camera's rolling, at Vandenberg Air Force Base, in California. There are no hard-hitting confrontations between representatives of opposing schools on nuclear policy, no editorial...

The Talk of the Town Moving Images by Adam Gopnik. Talk story about the American Museum of the Moving Image which just opened in Queens. This museum doesn't preserve movies themselves, it keeps the "stuff of movies" from old movie cameras and projection machines to props used in movies and souvenirs used to promote them. Writer describes some of the...

Fiction Oranges and Apples by Alice Munro. Story about Murray and Barbara Zeigler and their friend Victor. Victor is a Polish refugee who escaped from Poland in an airplane from his flying school during the Nazi invasion. He and some friends flew to Switzerland and ended up in England in the Polish air force. After he was...

The Talk of the Town Tumalo by Thomas Hackett. Talk story about stopping in the ranching town of Tumalo, OR while driving north from California. Writer spent one summer working as a ranch hand on several ranches in the area. Tumalo isn't an incorporated town; writer mentions the stores and businesses that are there and says that if you...

A Reporter at Large THE RELIGION OF THE PAST I-JUST JUDGMENT by V. S. Naipaul. REPORTER AT LARGE about the Old South. Writer visited Charleston and Columbia in South Carolina. In Charleston the historical area is like arriving in Toytown. It is part of tourist Charleston with many shops in the hotel lobby, the Slave Mart, the Confederate Museum in the 18th & 19th century...

Musical Events by Andrew Porter.

Books by Helen Vendler.

Poetry Uphill Home by Eamon Grennan. Two old men under the blazing...

Poetry Wedding by Linda Bierds. Wait. The groom stops...