The Theatre by Arlene Croce.

Around City Hall AROUND CITY HALL ANYTHING GOES by Andy Logan. At a Republican banquet recently, Lee Atwater, the manager of George Bush's campaign, told New Yorker Republicans that a G.O.P. victory in the mayoral race in this city would "turn the country spinning." Atwater's evident belief that 1989 might be a Republican mayoral year in NYC was presumed to rest...

Dance The Rockettes by Deborah Digges. My mother danced with the Rockettes one spring...

The Talk of the Town Nice Psychic by Mark Singer. Talk Story about Morris Fonte, creator, producer & host of "Tele-Psychic." "Tele-Psychic" is filmed at Metro Access, a studio on East 23rd St...

THE JOURNALIST AND THE MURDERER; I-THE JOURNALIST by Janet Malcolm.

Reflections THE JOURNALIST AND THE MURDERER THE JOURNALIST-I by Janet Malcolm. REFLECTIONS about the trial of Joe McGinniss, a reporter who was sued by the subject of his book, "Fatal Vision." The subject was convicted murderer Jeffrey MacDonald. Tells about the lawsuit, which was filed in the summer of 1984. The writer of the piece learned about the trial only after...

The Talk of the Town Python Scholars by Mary Norris. Talk Story about attending the Museum of Broadcasting's Monty Python Marathon, during which all 45 episodes of "Monty Python's Flying Circus" were screened in 2 batches, on consecutive Saturdays. Writer describes the experience of watching all 45 episodes as exhausting & deranging. About 10 people stuck it out from noon...

Books by Helen Vendler.

Fiction Satellite Dish by Rick Rofihe. The narrator, an old woman, sits out by the beaver dam eating her lunch & thinking about things. She tells how she was married long ago. Three children, two now away. The satellite dish that's now by the barn, next to the road is there so that her son &...

Fiction The Stylist by Jennifer Egan. Bernadette has been a fashion stylist for 16 years. She is on a fashion shoot in Lamu, Africa with Jann, a photographer & 3 teen-age models. They're staying at an old hotel near the waterfront that reminds Bernadette of the hotel in New Orleans where she spent her honeymoon...

Comment Comment, Pt. II by Garrison Keillor. A city like New York could use at least one good snowstorm every year. A storm is the only event that happens to everybody at the same time. So the imaginary snowstorm that blew through town the other weekend had a lot of people counting on it & thinking about...

Comment Comment, Pt. I by Suzannah Lessard. Around the time of the Inauguration, a fortunate moment in the field of international relations was at hand. All over the world there was a softening of hard lines, especially between the Soviet Union & the U.S. Since then, anxiety has built up because President Bush hasn't responded yet with...

A Reporter at Large FAMINE by Raymond Bonner. REPORTER AT LARGE about the famine in the Sudan. Its principal cause is a civil war between the south & the north. Both sides hamper relief efforts and until recently the outside world knew little about the famine. Now the story has been told by the media and some progress...

Poetry Looking to Console the Maker by Elizabeth Macklin. A potter fragile as porcelain is reading this...

Poetry Stars by Vickie Karp. Luminous. Ancient...