The Talk of the Town Muscles at the Whitney by Ian Frazier. Talk story about demonstration and symposium at the Whitney Museum entitled "Articulate Muscle: The Male Body in Art." Before the panel of 6 artists, art historians and writers began their discussion, 3 well-known body builders exhibited themselves...

Books A Certain Dr. Malraux by George Steiner.

Fiction Granger's Life So Far by Penelope Mortimer. After Granger's father died his mother devoted herself to her pet dog, which she loved more than her little boy. As a young man, Granger was attracted by women but bored and frightened by girls. He moderately enjoyed a number of relationships with young mothers, married schoolteachers, or women temporarily...

The Current Cinema SUICIDE IS PAINLESS by Pauline Kael.

U. S. Journal ACROSS THE RIVER by Calvin Trillin. U.S. JOURNAL: NEWPORT, KY. about Mayor John Peluso's plan to span the Ohio River with a system of cable-cars, linking his city, Newport, KY., with Cincinnati, Oh. People from Cincinnati often travel across the river to Newport for entertainment-at this time, the favorite genre being strip joints. The...

The Art World (The Art Galleries) American Drawing and the Academy of the Erased de Kooning by Harold Rosenberg.

The Talk of the Town Meeting by Lillian Ross. Talk story about meeting held by Harold Prince, director and producer of "Pacific Overtures," new musical in the Kabuki style, to discuss the possibilities for additional cast members. They discussed 30 Asian-Americans, many of them non-actors, and one Japanese, actor Isao Sato. Four people attended the meeting. At...

Reflections DEMOCRACY IN A POOR COUNTRY by Ved Mehta. REFLECTIONS about India. Indira Gandhi, present Prime Minister, was the only child of India's first Prime Minister, after independence. He was Jawaharlal Nehru. He served for almost 17 years. He never encouraged his daughter to acquire any personal power. His successor died in 1966, after only 2 years in office...

The Race Track Lasater's Luck by G. F. T. Ryall. Tells about Lasater's financial success...

The Talk of the Town Tri-State Blues by Lillian Ross. Talk story about the Tri-State Regional Conference held at the New York Hilton...

Profiles THE INVANDRARE by Jane Kramer. PROFILE of Predag Ilic (fictitious name), a Yugoslav migrant worker in Sweden. He lives with his wife Darinka & their 3 children in a Swedish factory town called Sodertalje, on the Baltic, and he works on an assembly line at Saab-Scania. He wants to earn enough money to complete...

Comment by Daniel Lang. Seeking election, Pres. Ford has vowed to expunge the term "detente" from his vocabulary-a ploy aimed, it appears, at countering Gov. Reagan's contention that the Pres. is soft on America's enemies, or some such. We, too, think the term should be scrapped, but for a different reason. We find...

Cartoon The American Revolution; A Schoolboy's Vision by William Steig. Eight drawings of various events of the Revolution, such as "The Battle of Lexington", "The Adoption of the Declaration of Independence","Valley Forge", etc...

Fiction We Road-Test The New 1976 Loprestis by George W. S. Trow. For 1976, the LoPrestis are pinning their hopes on two new models - a new version of their "sporty" adolescent, Robert (Bob) LoPresti II, and a new subcompact (meant to compete with imports) called the LoPresti Tot. Gives writer's past opinons on the LoPrestis, and then a chart showing the results...

Musical Events Going to the Devil by Andrew Porter.

Poetry Sitting By A Swamp by David Wagoner. Minutes ago, it was dead...

Poetry Reading the Water by Vickie Karp. Three steps into myself I imagine a blue window, vacant...

Poetry Saint Francis And The Sow by Galway Kinnell. The bud...