The Current Cinema by Michael Sragow.

Comment Comment, Pt.1 by H. D. S. Greenway. Comment about prisoners of war in Indo-China, if any, and about attending hearings before the Senate Select Committee on P.O.W./M.I.A. Affairs--the latest and most thorough of several congressional inquiries into the matter. Writer tells about the testimony of Garnett Bell, the head of the American P.O.W./M.I.A...

Comment Comment, Part II by George W. S. Trow. Comment about the possible Presidential candidacy of Unnamed Democrat, who writer describes in detail. A N.Y. "Times" /CBS News poll shows an unnamed Democrat beating President Bush. No named Democrat can make that statement. Fantastic! Why not elect Unnamed Democrat? Writer tells about Unnamed Democrat: He has three children, and...

The Talk of the Town Russian Blues by Liesl Schillinger. Talk story about Yuri Naumov, a Russian blues singer who accompanies himself on the guitar. He & his wife Anna have lived in N.Y.C. for a year and a half. They are among the 15,000 Soviet emigres who arrived in 1990. He came here to sing the blues but Russian...

The Talk of the Town Fan by Lisa Miller. Talk story about Naomi Beckley, of Port Washington, Long Island, who, in 1982, gave more than a thousand movie magazines from the forties to the American Museum of the Moving Image, in Queens...

Fiction Salt of Life by Veronica Geng. The narrator runs a wine store on an economically depressed shopping strip called the Miracle Mile. "On the Miracle Mile we're hurting," she says, "but nothing like most people." She reads in USA Today that Pres. Bush said, "I hurt when other people are hurting. And I've got to convey...

Fiction Accident at the Sugarbeet by Tom Drury. Louise Darling, 34, is divorced from her husband, Tiny, and lives in a rented farmhouse. Just before Halloween, her mother, Mary, gives her a large amount of venison that her companion, Hans Cook, has acquired. Mary and Hans live in Grafton. Louise delivers venison to Nan Jewell, an elderly busybody...

Profiles OUTSIDER III-WITHOUT PORTFOLIO by Marshall Frady. PROFILE of Jesse Jackson. After Martin Luther King's death, Jackson felt confined within King's Southern Christian Leadership Conference, and broke off to form his own group, People United to Save Humanity or PUSH, in 1971. Jackson emerged at the end of the seventies as virtually the sole national voice of...

Dancing Let's Twist Again by Arlene Croce.

Popular Music by Elizabeth Wurtzel.

Letter from Washington by Elizabeth Drew. Before Bill Clinton ran into the issue of his extramarital sex life, the Bush people seemed to fear him the most, because he was a Southerner running as a moderate and could appeal to the swing vote in Nov. If nominated, Clinton would in the words of one Bush political...

Books Family Stories by Verlyn Klinkenborg.

Poetry White Shining Sea by Charlie Smith. Thinking all day about white things...

Poetry Memory During Antidepressant Treatment by Karen Rose. The doctor promises it will return...