On and Off the Avenue Feminine Fashions by Kennedy Fraser.

The Current Cinema Night Voices by Roger Angell. Review of Pal Gabor's new Hungarian film "Angi Vera,O which opened here after an initial appearance at the New York Film Festival last fall...

Comment by Jonathan Schell. In the first days of the new year, the world appeared to veer abruptly off into an unfortunately perilous direction. In Afghanistan, Soviet forces, having overseen the execution of the country's President, Hafizullah Amin, & several of his relatives, were said to be approaching the border of Pakistan, and there...

The Talk of the Town Three Parties by Jamaica Kincaid. Talk story about three parties attended by a pretty girl and her companion. Bill Boggs, in a double vent Jacket, attended the first of the parties...

The Talk of the Town Two Rehearsals by Jane Boutwell. Talk story about a rehearsal at the Minskoff Theatre of "Baryshnikov on Broadway," choreographed by Ron Field, a television special starring Mikhail Baryshnikov and Liza Minnelli that will be taped in mid-January. Field, who has worked with Minnelli over fourteen years, explains the special problems in teaching jazz dance...

Fiction Master of the Revels by Robert Henderson. A scholarly man of eighty who died of a heart attack returns, as in ghost form, to read his obituary, to look over the sympathy cards received by his cousin, and to attend the service and gathering of people after the service. His cousin Amanda is presiding over the arrangements...

Fiction In Trust by Penelope Gilliatt. A three act play spanning ten years. The setting is a seating area outside a London pub. The characters are a couple in their early fifties and their granddaughter Kate (played by an adult actress) who is seven, eleven and 17 in the three acts. In Act I, gathered for...

Musical Events A Great Composer? by Andrew Porter.

Concert Records / Popular Music Porter! by Douglas Watt.

Reflections ARISTOCRACIES by William Pfaff. REFLECTIONS about political lites in England, France, and the U.S. While the U.S. does not have a recognizable governing class, England and France do. Discusses each in turn and compares the two European lites. The British have an aristocratic system combined with a meritocracy assimilated to an aristocracy. The French...

The Theatre LOOKING BACK by Brendan Gill.

Books From Fumie to Sony by John Updike.

The Talk of the Town Alternatives by E. J. Kahn. Talk story about the Cambridge Alternative Power Co., in Cambridge, Mass., which sells wood stoves, kerosene lamps, solar equipment, and many other energy-saving devices...

Profiles GOOD, CAREFUL MELODY by Whitney Balliett. PROFILE of Michael Moore, jazz bassist. Describes his style, which is lyrical and melodic. He lives on Thompson St., in SoHo, with Anita Gravine, his second wife. Describes his small apartment with one room full of basses. Moore gives lessons, and writer sits in on one with a young Canadian...

The Current Cinema NIGHT VOICES by Roger Angell.

Poetry Leaving the Island by John C. Witte. Your small plane takes off. Drifting...

Poetry Among That Company by Hayden Carruth. It was my adversity, not yours...

Poetry Entering the Temple in Nimes by James Wright. As long as this evening lasts...