The Art World (The Art Galleries) Season's End by Harold Rosenberg.

The Talk of the Town Videotex by Wallace White. Talk story about Videotex '83, a 3-day international conference and exhibition that was held recently at the Hilton and was billed as"North America's single most important, comprehensive&substantive event this year". Videotex is a new electronic marvel that is a result of computers hooked into telephone...

The Talk of the Town Happy the Bride by Stanley Mieses. Talk story about a series of bridal seminars and demonstrations at B. Altmans, given to promote their computerized bridal registry. Attendance was good at seminars like "Planning Your Wedding," "Your Honeymoon Trip," and "Decorating for the 2 of You," which were held in Altman's Special Events Gallery, on the 8th...

Dancing Signs and Portents by Arlene Croce.

The Talk of the Town Safeman by William Franzen. Talk story about Sal Schillizzi, the 59-year-old owner and president of the All-Over Locksmiths shop on the upper East Side. One recent morning he spent an unusual amount of time in the bedroom closet of an apartment on the upper West Side that belonged to Mike and...

The Talk of the Town On the Beach by William McKibben. Talk story about the clean-up at Coney Island beach after the 4th of July and about Peter B. French, the 1rst deputy commisioner of the city's Parks and Recreation Department who is charged with, among other duties, picking up after New Yorker's when they visit the 15 miles of...

Comment by Gwyneth Cravens. A woman we know writes that on a recent hot morning she was waiting for a bus. She noticed that one wall of the bus shelter was taken up by a big color photograph of a lighthouse. At the top of the picture--it was the backdrop for an Avis...

Fiction The U.S.A. School of Writing by Elizabeth Bishop. When the narrator graduates from Vassar in 1934 she accepts a job offer with the U.S.A. School of Writing in New York. It is a dubious outfit which offers a correspondence course on "How To Write." The course is advertised in the cheapest farm magazines, movie and Western magazines. There...

Profiles CITY VOICES by Whitney Balliett. PROFILE of Jean Bach, the woman who produces the"Arlene Francis Show," a radio interview program that has been heard 5 days a week over WOR for the past 23 years and; gives countless select, sought-after parties at her house in Greenwich Village. Refers to E.B. White's essay"Here...

Fiction Some Famous Shoving Matches by Ian Frazier. Five drawings showing famous fights. They are captioned...

Musical Events A Torch, a Flame, a Will-o'-the-Wisp by Andrew Porter.

The Sporting Scene RACING TO BERMUDA by Tony Gibbs. THE SPORTING SCENE about sailboat racing by yachts on the open sea, especially the U.S. to Bermuda race. Writer ends by giving details of the 1982 Newport to Bermuda race. Brigadoon III, owned by Robert Morton, was the over-all winner. The sport's official and recorded beginning was Dec. 11...

Books Business as Usual by Naomi Bliven.

Poetry Tourists in Paros by Michael Ryan. If I die or something happens to us...

Poetry The Nest by Marvin Bell. The day the birds were lifted from my shoulders...