Musical Events by Andrew Porter.

In Fashion SELLING MONTANA by Holly Brubach. In IN FASHION writer goes to fashion shows in Milan&Paris &tells about the clothes of Claude Montana. Montana's spring collection previewed in Milan before its official opening in Paris stirred excitement among inveterate Montana buyers. It was Montana's departure from his futuristic clothes--big shoulders, taut fit...

Fiction Here I Am by John Updike. After giving a reading at a Midwestern university, the writer returns to his hometown of Shillington, Pennsylvania to visit his ailing, elderly mother. He finds that the fall she Buffered over the summer has taken something out of her. However her will to live has been slowly reviving this fall...

Comment by Adam Gopnik. A friend who hangs around museums a lot writes about watching the winter's first snowfall from a window on the 2nd floor landing at The Museum of Modern Art. The snow in the sculpture garden makes him think of a line in an Isaac Bashevis SInger story where a snowfall...

Reflections THE TRIUMPH OF CAPITALISM by Robert Heilbroner. REFLECTIONS about the contest between capitalism & socialism, which, writer asserts, capitalism has won. The Soviet Union, China & Eastern Europe have given us the clearest possible proof that capitalism organizes the material affairs of humankind more satisfactorily than socialism: that however inequitably or irresponsibly the marketplace may distribute goods...

The Talk of the Town Kegling by Sue Hubbell. Talk story about visiting the museum. Writer was in St. Louis not long ago & her bowling shoes walked her into it. It's across the street from Busch Stadium--a pudgy building of gray & pink pebbles firmly anchored on a triangular lot by a squat tower at each apex...

A Reporter at Large THE ONLY HARMLESS GREAT THING by Sallie Tisdale. full-size bull; there are threeat Washington Park. The Washington Park Zoo is a century old. Tells about its origins & how in 1953 the voters approved a bond issue to build a new zoo. The zoo's director, Jack Marks, wanted to build the ultimate modern zoo, where the animals...

The Current Cinema by Pauline Kael.

Dancing No Dancing by Susan Lardner. Janet talk story about Janet's trial for eviction. "Have I mentioned that I might be evicted? My neighbor recommended a lawyer, but the lawyer expected $750 in advance, so I said I could get back to her. If you're over a certain age, you can go to this old-age...

Fiction The Widow by Edna O'Brien. Bridget, a woman who has always more or less kept to herself, is the subject of much cruel gossip among her Irish neighbors. Years earlier her husband drown. They had only been married a short time. 2 days after his burial she sell sells her house&moves to the...

The Talk of the Town Slave by Alex Prud'Homme. Talk story about Albert Yeganeh, who prepares soups in a tiny storefront kitchen at 259-A West 55 St. The place is called Soup Kitchen International. Mr. Yeganeh creates from 8 to 17 soups every weekday. His concoctions are so popular that a wait of half an hour at lunchtime...

Poetry Coming Into LaGuardia Late At Night by Stanley Plumly. The glide almost outside of time, the plane...

Poetry The Bathrobe by Sharon Olds. On his last birthday, my father's wife...