The Current Cinema MYTHOLOGIZING THE SIXTIES by Pauline Kael.

Comment by Suzannah Lessard. Still another letter was from a young woman in the Village: "Ash Wednesday fell this year on the day after the forty-hour blizzard.. Lent is such a fine invention-perfectly timed... We need Lent to get us through...the transition from winter to spring...

The Art World (The Art Galleries) by Harold Rosenberg.

The Theatre THE THEATRE OFF BROADWAY by Edith Oliver. Review of "Statements After an Arrest Under the Immorality Act", by the South African dramatist Athol Fugard. Mentions his other plays...

The Current Cinema by Pauline Kael. Review of "Coming Home", directed by Hal Ashby...

Books by John Updike.

Dancing by Arlene Croce.

U. S. Journal THE LAST CHINATOWN by Calvin Trillin. U.S. JOURNAL about the problem of preserving Locke, California, the last rural Chinese town in CA. Mr. Ng Tor-tai, a Hong Kong investor, and his wife, Fancy, bought Locke and planned to develop it with restaurants, motels, etc. After the county put a 12-mo. building moratorium on the...

Fiction The Apology by Donald Barthelme. The internal dialogue of a woman sitting at a window convincing herself that William, her wronged husband, will come back if she apologizes. The gate opens, but it is only Tony de Groot, an admirer. He lurks outside the house. When Tony becomes threatening, the woman opens the window and...

The Theatre by Edith Oliver.

Profiles by Kenneth Tynan. PROFILE of Johnny Carson, host of talk show the"Tonight Show" on NBC. Oct. 1, 1977 marked his fifteenth anniversary as star of the show. His present contract guarantees him an annual salary of $2 1/2 million, and 15 weeks of vacation a year. Tells about NBC's extraordinary income from...

Comment by Jonathan Schell. Comment about the snowstorm last week. A young man who lives on Riverside Drive writes: "As I made my way home from work through .... last week's big storm... I began to experience combined feelings of edginess and euphoria which were hauntingly similar to sensations of ...last July's blackout... Back then...

Fiction On the Edge of the Cliff by V. S. Pritchett. Harry, 70, is living with Rowena, 25, in the countryside of England. When they go to the fair Harry meets Daisy Pyke, George Fyke's widow, whom he knew in London twenty years ago when Violet, his wife, was still alive. Harry assumes that Stephen, the young man with Daisy, is...

The Race Track by G. F. T. Ryall. Los Angeles racegoers voted the George Woolf Award, which always goes to the top jockey at the Santa Anita meeting, to Darrel McHargue, the 23-year-old race rider from Oklahoma, who had victories with Mr. Redoy in the Charles H. Strub Stakes and with Ancient Title in the San...

The Talk of the Town The Rooster by Mark Singer. Talk story about rooster kept in window of Haim Gabai's S.O.S. Locksmith shop on Seventh Ave. in Chelsea. Mr. Gabai rescued rooster from the Cafe Borinqueneer, a tavern next door run by Miguel A. Del Rosario, where it is suspected he was being groomed to fight. German Roman, a tavern...

The Talk of the Town At the Diet and Nutrition Expo in the Madison Square Garden Exposition Rotunda by Ian Frazier. Talk story about the Diet and Nutrition Expo consisting entirely of quotes from a hawker selling "The Miracle Ultra-Matic Stainless Steel Automatic Pulp Ejector Vegetable and Fruit Juicer", interspersed with quotes from other sales pitches for nutrition related products. Juicer costs $225 and will last ten years; hawker says...

Musical Events by Andrew Porter.

Comment by Roger Angell. We received a number of letters about the big snowstorm last week. One came from a man in his fifties, who lives in the East Nineties. He tells how he went by bus to his office on the second day of the storm. He describes his feeling of joy on...

Poetry Small Wild Crabs Delighting on Black Sand by James Wright. Nearsighted, I feel a kinship...

Poetry Waving by Dave Smith. In the backyard, by the stilled...

Poetry Santarem by Elizabeth Bishop. Of course I may be remembering it all wrong...