Dancing by Arlene Croce.

Fiction Book of Dreams by Mary Grimm. Margaret, the narrator, and her sister Kate, who was 2 years younger, were always close. As children, they'd play with their cousin Carol Ann, and the three of them formed a secret Dream Club. Carol Ann could sometimes dream things that would come true. The only time Kate and Margaret...

Reflections I-EXPERIENCING PLACES by Anthony Hiss. REFLECTIONS about urban landscapes & their effect... Writer tells about the experience of entering Grand Central Terminal... Several overlapping kinds of evidence--principally, research findings by public-safety & public-health investigators; discoveries about how the human mind & the human brain function & a host of personal experiences in...

Fiction Good Advice is Rarer Than Rubies by Salman Rushdie. The dawn bus brought Miss Rehana to the gates of the British Embassy. When the advice expert Muhammad Ali saw her beauty, he went over to offer her advice, for a small sum. She told him she was poor. He was smitten with her, and for the first time ever...

The Talk of the Town S. W. G. by Holly Brubach. Talk story about a meeting of the Society of Woman Geographers. The S.W.G. are a group of energetic women out to see the world for themselves. Writer attended their triennial convention. Founded in 1925 as "a medium of intellectual exchange" for women engaged in geographical work & "its allied fields...

Profiles THE ONLY WAY by Charles Patrick Crow. PROFILE of Ronald John Kusse, who lives near Washingtonville, N.Y. where he makes fishing rods. Kusse disavows any pretentions of being an artist, and would prefer to be known as "a plain rodmaker." He works in a shop in the basement of his house, and has more than a year's...

Comment by Isabel Logan. Ulysses S. Grant, the 18th President, a Republican & a man who, like many people whose names have come up during the current Iran-Contra hearings, proudly wore his country's uniform has been cited lately by supporters of Admiral John Poindexter & Lt. Col. Oliver North, who are bent on...

Books by Naomi Bliven.

Letter from Washington by Elizabeth Drew. Tells about the testimony of witnesses in the Iran-Contra congressional hearings, which yielded up a great deal of new material. The most important thing the hearings have done is underline the serious constitutional questions that the affair has raised. The President is more damaged by the hearings than had...

The Talk of the Town Welcome Back by Stanley Mieses. Talk story about the fifth annual Welcome Back to Brooklyn celebration last week that took place on Grand Army Plaza and a stretch of Eastern Parkway. The fair was sponsored by the Brooklyn Union Gas Co. Tells about various people there white clad nuns holding posters that said "Win a...

The Talk of the Town The World by Susan Orlean. Talk story about the best-selling shower curtain in New York: a transparent vinyl curtain imprinted with a pastel geopolitical map of the world. Writer interviews Ray Faragher, who makes The World. He said over the phone from Cincinnati that he hadn't expected to sell many copies of The World...

The Theatre ...AND a PEACH by Mimi Kramer.

Poetry Bells Above Bretaye by Karl Kirchwey. The old writers speak of le son des cloches...

Poetry The Pool of Tears by Susan Prospere. Life, what is it but a dream...