The Current Cinema by Pauline Kael. Review of "The Gauntlet", directed by Clint Eastwood, who also acts in it...

Books by V. S. Pritchett.

Letter from Rome by William Murray. On Sept. 30, a young man named Walter Rossi, was shot to death in the streets of Rome. He was one of a gang of about 40 youthful militant radicals belonging to the Communist splinter group called Lotta Continua. They were distributing propaganda leaflets in the Balduina, a zone of...

The Theatre by Edith Oliver.

The Race Track by G. F. T. Ryall. Writer discusses the fact that OTB has cut attendance at race tracks. Tells about tracks and betting shops in France, which flourish side by side, and about England where things work out quite the other way...

Profiles A GOOD MONSTER by Calvin Tomkins. PROFILE of Pontus Hulten, director of the new Musee National d'Art Moderne, which is on the third, fourth, and fifth floors of the new Centre National d'Art et de Culture Georges Pompidou- or Beaubourg, as it is usually referred to. Hulten, who was born in 1924, in Stockholm, was selected...

Fiction Secrets by Marian Thurm. The narrator and her husband, William, eat chicken at the Vermont home of her sister, Lauren, and her husband, Eric. Eric has had several operations for cancer in his leg. During the day, Lauren and Eric are heard shouting inside the house. The narrator wants to share her sister's trouble...

Fiction Moving Day in Jackson Heights by Emily Hahn. The narrator and her sister. Helen, are helping the narrator's daughter, Carola, move out of her old house in Jackson Heights. It is January. They rent a noisy van and drive it to JH on icy roads. The house is a mess. The three women take several loads of small...

The Talk of the Town New Mayor by Jane Boutwell. Talk story about the clothing worn at the outdoor inauguration ceremonies at City Hall Plaza for the 105th administration of the City of New York. Formally sworn in were Mayor Edward I. Koch; City Council Pres. Carol Bellamy, and Cmptroller Harrison J. Goldin...

The Talk of the Town Ninety by Anthony Hiss. Talk story about Frances Steloff, founder of the Gotham Book Mart, and party celebrating her 90th birthday and professional anniversary. A few days later writer had an interview with her and she said one thing she always did when she hired new assistants was quote them her favorite line from...

Fiction Postcards by Saul Steinberg. Six drawings of the following cities: Vicksburg, Miss. Amarillo, Texas; Colton, Calif.; Henderson, N.C.; Garden State Pkwy Toll Plaza, Asbury, N.J.; Miami, Fla...

The Talk of the Town New Mayor by Jane Boutwell. Talk story about the inauguration at City Hall Plaza of the 105th administration of the City of New York. Formally sworn in were Mayor Edward I. Koch; City Council Pres. Carol Bellamy, and Comptroller Harrison J. Goldin, the only citywide-office holdover from the 1973 elections. A platform was set...

Comment by Jamaica Kincaid. We have a letter from an excitable young woman who told about a party given by Random House to celebrate the publication of a book, edited by Linda Rosen Obst, called "The Sixties". The subtitle is "The Decade Remembered Now, By the People Who Lived It Then." Tells about some...

The Talk of the Town New Mayor by Fred C. Shapiro. Talk story about Mayor Edward Koch's inauguration day, New Year's day. Tells about ceremonies at City Hall where Mayor Koch, City Council President Carol Bellamy, and Comptroller Harrison J. Goldin, were sworn in by three different judges. 2,300 spectators sat on chairs in the City Hall parking lot witnessing the...

Poetry Winter Stars by Alfred Corn. In winter also, climbing up...

Poetry The Longing to Be Saved by Maxine Kumin. I am wearing the wrong negligee...