Musical Events Musica Britannica by Andrew Porter.

Concert Records / Popular Music Happy Reminders by Douglas Watt.

A Reporter in Europe WEST BERLIN by Jane Kramer. A REPORTER IN EUROPE. West Berlin has lived with the Wall since twenty years ago last August, when the East Germans put it up. They accept the fact that their world is an enormous cellN185 sq. miles, bounded by a hundred miles of barbed wire & white concrete. Within...

The Current Cinema THE DEVIL IN THE FLESH by Pauline Kael.

The Talk of the Town First and Only by Lillian Ross. Talk story about New York's only green fire engine, which can be found at our next-door neighbor, Engine Company 65, at 33 West 43rd St. Writer spoke first with John Mulligan, assistant fire commissioner in charge of public relations, who described the color as lime-green, lime-yellow, or...

Fiction The Hotel Washington, D. C. by Ellis Weiner. Parody of the Reagan administration in the style of John Irving's "The Hotel New Hampshire." Father, (Reagan) had a dreamy quality that had to do with the fact that he spent most of his waking moments thinking the unthinkable. Parson James (Secretary of the Interior James Watt) was put in...

The Talk of the Town Back by Vickie Karp. Talk story about a young woman in the East Village who visits the Record Hunter, a record store, and looks through a copy of Phonolog Reports, a catalogue of current releases by title, among other things. She looks under the word "back" and finds fourteen columns of titles. She lists...

The Art World (The Art Galleries) An End to Chauvinism by Calvin Tomkins.

The Theatre Strivers by Brendan Gill.

Fiction Snorkeling by Nicholson Baker. Royal was always sleepy. He had terrible trouble getting up in the morning, and tried to take naps at work. One day a man came and offered him a Sleep Diode. The Diode was a clear transparent polyhedron that you knelt before and told how much sleep credit you wanted...

The Talk of the Town Girl Talk by Ann Beattie. The narrator is pregnant by her boyfriend, Oliver. They are spending the weekend with Oliver's mother, Barbara, at her beach house, for her sixtieth birthday. Barbara's other son, Craig, brings two similar-looking girls to the house, and over the weekend they disappear with some of Barbara's silver. Barbara is...

Around City Hall AROUND CITY HALL FINALES by Andy Logan. Wednesday, Oct. 28, the day before the anniversary of the 1929 stock market crash, two events occurred which disturbed many New Yorkers: the U.S. Senate voted 52-48 to permit the sale of American AWACS planes to Saudi Arabia; and the N.Y. Yankees lost the World Series to the L.A. Dodgers...

Comment by George W. S. Trow. It has been announced that the Columbia Broadcasting System will expand its national news coverage to enclose an hour. As it is now, the CBS Evening News, with Dan Rather, encloses a half hour. That period of time, thirty minutes from which is subtracted this or that minute given over...

U. S. Journal NOTHING BUT HOLINESS by Calvin Trillin. U.S. JOURNAL: MIRACLE VALLEY, ARIZ. about tension following the arrival in 1979 of an all-black congregation called the Christ Miracle and Healing Center Church, whose previous headquarters had been in a storefront in Chicago. Their leader, Frances Thomas, said that she led her flock to Miracle Valley because God...