Dancing Oh, That Pineapple Rag! by Arlene Croce.

The Talk of the Town Friendship by Mark Singer. Talk story about a 3-day exposition called Solo in the City at the Seventh Regiment Armory on Park Ave. in the Sixties. It was put together by Judy Corson and Nancy Sokol. There were 86 exhibits. Writer tells about some of them and the people representing them. Etta Harmo...

Onward and Upward with the Arts OFF OFF BROADWAY JOURNAL by James Stevenson. ONWARD AND UPWARD WITH THE ARTS, in diary form, about the writer's experience last summer acting in an Off Off Broadway play. He is a non-actor, and was asked on July 9 by director Joe Steele to appear in the play. Although it is never stated the play referred...

Fiction Phools by Stanislaw Lem. On day 1,006 of his journey, Ijon Tichy, Space Traveller, landed on a planet in the middle of an open desert covered with shining discs arranged in geometric patterns. He explored the planet, and saw three beautiful cities, all of which were deserted, but with no signs of natural disasters...

The Talk of the Town Between Sets by Lillian Ross. Talk story about Jimmy Lyon, who plays the piano in Peacock Alley at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel every Tuesday through Saturday from 6 to 10 PM. He plays practically any song you can come up with and reharmonizes and arranges them on the spot, making many of them better musically...

Books Proust by V. S. Pritchett.

The Sporting Scene ATLANTIC HIGH by William F. Buckley. THE SPORTING SCENE about an ocean voyage aboard a 71-foot racing-cruising ketch bound from the West Indies to Spain. The sailboat was the Sealestial, owned by Dr. Michael Papo, a Yugoslav-American physician, who practices in Detroit. In the summer of 1980 he wanted to have the boat...

The Current Cinema DUNAWAY ASSOLUTA by Pauline Kael.

Musical Events Odyssey by Winthrop Sargeant.

Fiction Getting Used to It by Douglas Dunn. Harry Boyle has been unemployed for several months. He is Scottish, living in a small town in Scotland. Since he is unemployed, he often has time to run into people he doesn't like. He runs into Vic Nairn, a healthy hypochondriac who is convinced he has more troubles than Harry...

East of Eden by Robert Mazzocco. Drinking I've an unexpected view from our window here...

The Theatre FAMILY TROUBLES by Brendan Gill.

Comment by Joseph Morgenstern. A letter from an ex-New Yorker, who has been living on a hilltop in Pacific Palisades, Calif., tells how he has been a view addict for the past 20 years, living in high places and looking out at the world through picture windows. It began when he married. His...

Poetry To a Young Woman Dying at Weir by Norman Dubie. She hears a hermit laughing...

Poetry Waiting for Father in Pawling, N. Y. by Phyllis Janowitz. I have been sitting at...