The Theatre by Edith Oliver.

Comment by William McKibben. Writer is a young man who tells about fellow classmate from Harvard, Bill O'Neill, who worked for the National Enquirer as a reporter for three years before he quit and went on the Great Peace March. Writer talks about his friends and classmates being worried about not being able to...

Musical Events by Andrew Porter.

Reflections THE DIMENSIONS OF TERROR by William Pfaff. REFLECTIONS about the atrocities committed by governments. A French filmmaker, Pierre Schoendoerffer, whose intelligent movies deal with the moral adventures of those who fought in France's Indo-Chinese & Algerian wars, has said that"an army exists to put order into the horror of war," & "Revolutionary war is horror...

Fiction For Real by Mary A. Robison. Narrator is Boffo, the girl clown, who hosts Channel 22's "Midday Matinee." She's played Boffo for 3 years now, which has made her complexion coarsen (the heavy, clown makeup), and she can't keep her hair more than an inch long because of her skullcap. She never went to clown...

The Talk of the Town Vision by Lillian Ross. Long talk story about Philip Johnson, architect, the one and only, creator of the Glass House in New Canaan, of Lincoln Center's New York State Theatre, of the AT&T corporate headquarters, of the Museum of Modern Art's East Wing and Sculpture Garden...and of dozens of other architectural...

Profiles BEING EVERYWHERE by Andrea Lee. PROFILE of Luciano Benetton, sportswear magnate. Writer attended the opening of a Benetton store in Czechoslovakia--an event that would mark the debut of the first shop for a Western manufacturer in Czechoslovakia since the inauguration of the Communist regime in 1948... The growth of the company is such that...

Books by Helen Vendler.

Jazz Scoop by Whitney Balliett. JAZZ column about Brown, a jazz and swing pianist of the 1930s and 1940s, who was in town to record a session with Marian McPartland, for her N.P.R. show "Marian McPartland's Piano Jazz...

The Talk of the Town Bertha by James Stevenson. Talk story about a middle-aged friend in the country who reports: Got a new dog: a one-year-old Labrador retriever named Bertha. Soulful expression; sweet disposition. Bertha adjusted instantly to life in our house, except for the stairs... Aside from the stair problem, Bertha's behavior has been outstanding...

Letter from the Space Center by Henry S. F. Cooper. The news from NASA is mostlyliterary. The spring saw the is suance of two government publications: "Report of the Presidential Commission on the Space Shuttle Challenger Accident," which is an account of the Jan. 28 explosion, and "Pioneering the Space Frontier," a report of the National Commission on Space which...

Fiction Another Party by Jacqueline Carey. The narrator designs book jackets, but now she's between jobs, so she met Dee Kilmartin at the Met. Dee's been lonely since she moved uptown(because of an editorial job at a fine-arts press up on Riverside Drive, and a deal on a coop nearby). In the museum, the...

Poetry Postmeridian by Nina Cassian. After the morning has cut the sediment of night...

Poetry I Look For You Everywhere by Mairi MacInnes. Walking over the bridge early...