Television Gala by Jane Boutwell. Talk story about Channel 13's "Gala of Stars," the 1984 Salute to public television from the world of classical and popular entertainment. It was taped"live"at Radio City Music Hall and will be televised March 18th. 5800 people in the audience watched as 20-odd singers, dancers and...

Fiction The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera. Tereza is a waitress in a hotel restaurant in a small Czech town, where she meet Tomas. He's a divorced doctor and womanizer from Prague. Tereza visits him in Prague and they make love. The 2nd time she visits, she brings a suitcase because she needs to escape her cruel...

Musical Events by Andrew Porter.

Books by Helen Vendler.

Memory An Antipastoral Memory of One Summer by Dave Smith. It is written that a single hurricane holds the power...

Comment by William McKibben. Cambridge, Mass., where the writer learned about politics, by watching the City Council, has an election every second year, with all of the campaigning common to such affairs. Elections, after all, are what politicians really enjoy, and in return they agree to serve the intervening terms. But once the Cambridge...

Dept. of Amplification by Calvin Trillin. DEPARTMENT OF AMPLIFICATION on a REPORTER AT LARGE about Kansas City, which ran Sept. 26, 1983, p. 57. Writer tells about two different reports on the city. One was an article in "Town and Country," and the other was a T.V. documentary made by Soviet film makers, which was extremely...

The Sporting Scene A GRANDIOSE MANIFESTATION by E. J. Kahn. THE SPORTING SCENE about the Fourteenth Winter Olympics held in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia. The assembled journalists out numbered athletes by nearly three to one. Great good will was showered on the visitors. Yugoslavia, part of the Olympic fraternity since 1920, has never won a medal of any kind This year they...

The Theatre REMAKING MANKIND by Brendan Gill.

The Talk of the Town Exit Poll by Susan Lardner. Mock Presidential elections of the 5th, 6th, 7th and 8th grades of the public schools in a Connecticut town came up with the results: Reagan 243 Michael Jackson 1 Hart 80 Teddy Ziegler (local dark horse) 1 Glenn 36 Jesse Jackson 30 Mondale 28 Bush 6 George Washington 5 McGovern...

The Current Cinema KING COMEDY by Pauline Kael.

The Talk of the Town Richness by William McKibben. Talk story about the National Coffee Association's roundtable discussion with 4 "achievers" at Hunter College. The National Coffee Association has its office downtown, represents "90% of America's roasting capacityO andsponsored the roundtable, which is attempting to sell coffee by insisting that it produces "coffee achievers." Writer spoke to John Adniolphi...

The Talk of the Town Dislocated by James Stevenson. An illustrated Talk story about the United House Wrecking Corporation, on Selleck Street, in Stamford, Connecticut. Writer visits it at 10:00 on a Saturday morning. There are seven acres and several large buildings packed with a blend of antiques, quasi antiques, and up-to-date items. Writer describes some of...

Poetry Kissing Stieglitz Goodbye by Gerald Stern. Every city in America is approached the last true city; after him...