Profiles A QUALITY THAT LETS YOU IN by Whitney Balliett. PROFILE of Tony Bennett, who has become the most widely admired American popular singer. Writer spends a few days with him, at his East Side apartment, in the park with his little girl (all the while being filmed by a camera crew), at the Amalfi restaurant, & at an Alice...

The Current Cinema by Pauline Kael. Full column review of "The Exorcist", taken from the book by William Peter Blatty, and directed by William Friedkin...

The Talk of the Town Equal Time by Victor Chen. Talk story about 3 citizens' groups--Environmental Action, Consumer Action Now, & the Village Green Recycling Team--who held a counter-awards ceremony on one floor of the Biltmore in protest against Keep America Beautiful, Inc., which was holding an awards reception on another floor of the hotel. The groups...

U. S. Journal U.S. JOURNAL: GARRISON, N.Y. JACKPOT by Calvin Trillin. U.S. JOURNAL about O. Rundle Gilbert & his collection of antique patent models. In 1941 he bought just about all of the existing models inventors had submitted to the U.S. Patent Office in the 19th cen. for $2,500. It's estimated there may have been 100,000 models. For a time the...

Dancing by Arlene Croce.

Musical Events by Desmond Shawe-Taylor.

Fiction The Crocodile And You by Calvin Tomkins. Eleven sections about the crocodile titled as follows His Great Age; Dimensions; Alimentation; Identity; Fear of Crocodiles; A Foolish Legend; Visitors From Outer Space?; Erotica; A Parable; Alligator Wrestling; Social Organization...

The Talk of the Town "Wonder Bar" by Anthony Hiss. Talk story about Les Rubin & Movie Musicals, Inc., of which Rubin is founder & president. The company rents the Bleecker Street Cinema, on weekends, for the purpose of showing hilarious old films. Writer spoke with Rubin, whose background is in public relations. He told the writer: "I am only...

The Theatre A TEA DANCE ON THE TITANIC by Brendan Gill.

The Talk of the Town Motifs by George W. S. Trow. Talk story about the Mission: Impossible party held on the top floor of a West Side hotel. Mission Impossible is an ad-hoc promotional group that has recently spent 4 1/2 million dollars in an attempt to rescue a foundering chain of gargantuan stores called Arlan's Department Stores. Writer spoke...

Fiction Pablo by Lyll Becerra De Jenkins. Pablo is a university student, a revolutionary who gives passionate speeches & works with the poor of Bogota, Colombia. He is arrested after a speech against the government, spends a brief term in jail, & is then prevented from going on with law school. He becomes an accountant, & often...

The Talk of the Town Good News from New Haven by Geoffrey T. Hellman. Talk story about visit in New Haven with Louis Martz, new director of Yale's Beinecke Rare Book Library. Martz has been teaching at Yale since 1938; he is an authority on the English Renaissance, an editor of English 17th century verse, & the author of books about Milton, Donne &...

Comment by Jonathan Schell. As the conference on the Middle East was getting under way, an item in the news reminds us of what people mean when they talk about interdependence nowadays. We read that the Soviet Union has large supplies of oil in Siberia but that the wherewithal for getting it out exists...

Poetry Working in Winter by Keith Althaus. We could fall...

Poetry Peril by W. S. Merwin. Where did you suppose the moths went...