Fiction Home by Nadine Gordimer. Teresa, a Xhosa-Javanese, and Nils, her Swedish husband, work together at a marine biology institute near Johannesburg. They are awakened one night with a phone all from her brother Jimmy with the news that her mother, her sister Francie and brother Robbie have been picked up and detained by...

Onward and Upward with the Arts OMNIVORES by Dan Hofstadter. ONWARD AND UPWARD WITH THE ARTS about attending the Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery at St. Anthony's College, Oxford. The event was co-chaired by Dr. Theodore Zeldin, the historian, and Alan Davidson, the food scholar. Davidson is also the editor and publisher of a remarkable culinary journal, "Petits...

The Talk of the Town Suggestions by Nancy Ramsey. annual conferences on pollution, and making sure that kids' shoes fit exactly. Larry Cruz (age 8, the Bronx)wanted to fight drugs. On a recent Thursday afternoon, several weeks after the essays had been turned in, Arielle, Krista, Larry and 3 or 4 other city kids were in Mayor Koch's...

The Talk of the Town Sanctuary by Stanley Mieses. Santuary, which bills itself as "New York's first New Age light club," occupies two rooms in a basement on W. 8th St. The larger features a small stage & a dance floor surrounded by cushioned banquettes, colorful paintings that depict scenes of enlightenment & a bar that serves fruit juices...

The Talk of the Town Palace by Adam Gopnik. The scene of a talk story in which Lester Binger, a man who worked a variety of movie theatres in Brooklyn as an usher in the 1930s, is interviewed. Theatres in Brooklyn that are mentioned are the Loew's Kings, the Loew's Coney Island, and the Patio Theatre...

The Theatre by Edith Oliver.

Casual Not an Endorsement by Veronica Geng. Casual about the possible drafting of NY Gov. Mario Cuomo for Democratic nomination for President. Writer gives first her scenario, then her boyfriend Ed's: My Scenario: Late Apr: Someone gives Matilda Cuomo a copy of "Women Who Love Too Much" & she rebels against her subservient nurturing role & moves...

Comment by Mark Hertsgaard. According to ABC-TV "there was another operation to provide guns for the Contras which was also against the law," & that" in this operation Americans & Israelis provided arms to the Contras, and then the same network smuggled drugs into the US." ...Despite its explosive political implications, particularly for...

Books by John Updike.

Profiles AuH2O by Burton Bernstein. PROFILE of former Republican presidential candidate & Arizona senator Barry Goldwater... Officially retired since January of 1987--after being a Republican senator from Arizona for 30 years, the Republican candidate in 1964 & the conservative revitalizer of the Republican party--Goldwater can't quite let go of things. He pronouncements, as...

Letter from Europe by Jane Kramer. Tells about a group of monuments currently under construction, known as the Projects of the President--among them I.M. Pei's glass pyramid in the Cour Napoleon of the Louvre, a 350-foot open cube at La Defense, and a riverside Finance Ministry, in the quarter called Bercy, designed, according to...

Poetry The Ossabaw Book of Hours by Julia Older. The island queen has a golden clock in her eyes...

Poetry The Dairy Cows of Maria Cristina Cortes by Sherod Santos. Although they may be...