Books by Edmund Morris.

Annals of Business DEAL OF THE-YEAR. by Connie Bruck. ANNALS OF BUSINESS about the merger of Time, Inc. and Warner Communications. Tells about the merger orchestrated by Gerald Levin, J. Richard Munro and Nicholas Nicholas of Time, and Steven Ross of Warner. By the mid-eighties, Time, Inc. seemed to have lost the generative charge that had empowered it...

The Talk of the Town Oldest Art Form by Amy Clyde. Talk story about Lois Alexander, 74, the founder and director of the Black Fashion Museum. In 1978 Ms. Alexander and her husband, Julius Lane, bought two brownstones on West 126th St., where they founded the Harlem Institute of Fashion. Students can take classes there for $15 a year. In the...

The Talk of the Town 911 by Paul Taylor. Talk story about a man who thinks his car is being stolen by two men, who, it turns out, have simply mistaken his car for another, identical car, down the block. Describes the menacing dialogue between the man who owned the car and the two men who mistook it for...

The Current Cinema MELODRAMA/CARTOON/MESS by Pauline Kael.

A Reporter at Large THE SHADOW OF SALADIN by Milton Viorst. REPORTER AT LARGE about Syria whose Pres. is Hafez al-Assad, whose dream, like Saladin's, has been to unite the Arabs drive the outsider from Islamic lands & retake the holy city of Jerusalem. Assad, now nearing 60, sees these prospects ebbing. These are not the best of times for...

Comment by Allan Nairn. Comment about the US invasion of Panama. The New York "Times" carried a front-page analysis concluding that George Bush had completed "a Presidential initiation rite" and had moved into the ranks of "American leaders" who "since World War II have felt a need to demonstrate their willingness to shed...

The Talk of the Town Signs by Alec Wilkinson. Talk story about Arnie Charnick, artist, sign painter, and muralist. You see his work as you travel down First Ave. from 11th St. to St. Marks Place. He has painted signs in the neighborhood since 1980. With one exception he has never been engaged to paint a sign north of...

Fiction Room Temperature by Nicholson Baker. The story's narrator relates some of his experiences during the period right after his wife, Patty, has given birth to their daughter, Bug. His memories range from eating peanut butter by the spoonful while building models, to his wife's building a mobile out of some inspection slips from his new...

Poetry Abstraction by Eric Pankey. The eyesore on the beach was torn down...

Poetry Ballad of the Jack of Diamonds Four Poems by Nina Cassian. Here is the Jack of Diamonds, clad...

Poetry Soft Fruit by Mairi MacInnes. Our lanes turn on the ends of fields...