The Talk of the Town Finally by Mark Singer. Talk story about a rat getting caught, through two holes, in a wire mesh waste basket, at the northeast corner of 14th St. and 6th Ave. The scene attracts about twenty people, including Jimmy Montana of New York and Barbara Burnett of Syracuse. Sergeant William Gorta and Officer Enno Peters...

The Current Cinema GREMLINOLOGY by Terrence Rafferty.

Fiction Getting Over Glenn by Mary Ferraro. In the early nineteen sixties, the teenaged Janet lives with her parents in Cocoa Beach, Florida. Her father is a colonel stationed at Patrick Air Force Base. Against her father's wishes, Janet and her friend Paula frequent the Noncommissioned Officers' Club. Janet has a series of brief affairs with men...

A Reporter at Large MAN OF GAMALIYA by Milton Viorst. REPORTER AT LARGE about Egypt & the Egyptian novelist Naguib Mahfouz, who was awarded the 1988 Nobel Prize in Literature. Pres. Hosni Mubarak lacks the flamboyance of his predecessors Anwar Sadat and Gamal Abdel Nasser. Mubarak is said to be more like the protagonist of a Mahfouz novel-banal, bumbling...

Books by Brad Leithauser.

Letter from Washington by Elizabeth Drew. The idea of President Bush & Mikhail Gorbachev just getting together to talk, as was supposed to be the case at Malta, in early December, went by the board at Malta when the Administration, eager that the President not be trumped by Gorbachev, and wanting to appear to be in...

Fiction Cousin by Rick Rofihe. The narrator addresses Cousin, whom he describes as a rough diamond, not easy to keep up with. Cousin instructs the narrator to drive them into the woods, up to an old logging road. Cousin tells him that on the night of the full moon in July the birch trees give...

Obituary by Charles Patrick Crow. Obituary of Bernard McAteer, who died on Saturday, June 9th, at the age of 54. He started out as a messenger in 1953 but soon moved into the makeup department. Three years ago he became the head of the department. With the exception of two years' service in the Army...

Dancing by Arlene Croce.

The Talk of the Town His Stuff by Jane Shapiro. Talk story about Frank Sinatra's recent concert at Radio City Music Hall. The ambience of Radio City is compared favorably to that of Madison Square Garden, where Sinatra gave a comeback concert in 1974...

Comment by Mark Hertsgaard. Writer tells about reading a piece of investigative reporting about what the Central Intelligence Agency has called "one of the worst mass murders of the 20th century"-the slaughter of hundreds of thousands of Indonesians in 1965 following the attempted coup against Indonesia's Pres. Sukarno. The article was the work...

The Talk of the Town The Pie by Gerald Jonas. Talk story about The Pie, a Russian restaurant on East 86th St., run by Simon and Anya Kublanov. Simon ran a chain of restaurants in Leningrad; he met Anya in 1979, at a center for Russian-Jewish emigres in Vienna. Their first restaurant in New York was a take-out...

Poetry Cities by Robert Mazzocco. Left at last...

Poetry Who We Are how by Julie Bruck. The man who runs the parking lot at St. Hubert and Duluth...

Poetry White Noise by Laurie Sheck. The faces are lifted up into the jumpy light...