The Current Cinema by Michael Sragow.

Comment by James Lardner. The meaning of the word "nonprofit came to mind with the news that the Univ. of Bridgeport might be on the brink of selling itself, for fifty million dollars, to an offshoot of the Rev. Sun Myung Moon's Unification Church. The chairman of the university's board of trustees said he...

The Talk of the Town Reunion by Peggy Orenstein. Talk story about a reunion of the Charlie Battery of the 522nd Field Artillery battalion, an all-Japanese-American battalion, which liberated Dachau, held under the auspices of San Francisco's Holocaust Oral History Project. Eric Saul, a historian who helped organize the event, explained to us that the 522nd was...

The Talk of the Town Sister by Adam Gopnik. Talk story about Maxene Andrews, of the Andrews Sisters. Maxene recalls that in the summer of 1937 the girls came to New York, and rehearsed in a music publisher's office in the Brill Building: "Brother, was it a funny place! Downstairs in the lobby, or even right outside on the...

Fiction Bilt-Rite by Alan Sternberg. Ralph Correggio is the owner of Bilt-Rite Construction, Inc., a small construction company in Connecticut. His four employees are Steve Heagan, 37; Paul Mylicki, 28; Ronnie Ramsey, 24; and Rich Lacroix, who is dating Ralph's sister, Mindy, and who is on workmen's comp. His leg was broken when a...

On the Street This Time of Year by Ruth Fainlight. Parked cars on the street have pale leaves...

Report from Moscow AFTER THE COUP by David K. Shipler. REPORT FROM MOSCOW about the post-coup environment in Moscow and Russia generally. On Sept. 2, in a desperate effort to hold the Soviet Union together after the coup, Gorbachev convened the Congress of People's Deputies--a body of 2250 members, chosen 2 1/2 years ago in quasi-democratic elections...

Musical Events by Andrew Porter.

Personal History A LASTING IMPRESSION by Ved Mehta. PERSONAL HISTORY about English classical scholar Jasper Griffin; writer met him at Balliol College, Oxford in 1956 when they were both students. Jasper was 19 & writer says he was both brilliant & sensitive. After he finished his Greats degree, at age 23, he went to Harvard to do research...

The Theatre FAMILY REUNION by Edith Oliver.

Popular Music Illusions by Elizabeth Wurtzel.

Books Landfall by Verlyn Klinkenborg.

The Film File Deceived by Michael Sragow. Goldie Hawn gives her most emotional performance in years as a wife who suspects her husband (John Heard) of philandering, chicanery, and worse. Hawn’s maturity is less a revelation than a delayed proof of the gifts her fans have known she’s been keeping under wraps. When she expresses her doubts,...

Poetry 40 Days and 40 Nights by Henri Cole. Opening a vein he called my radial...