The Current Cinema ARF by Pauline Kael.

Around City Hall AROUND CITY HALL EXCHANGES by Andy Logan. Though none of the hostages involved in the recent T.W.A. Flight 847 hijacking were New York residents, New Yorkers still felt strongly about it. Quotes Senator D'Amato&Mayor Koch on the subject. Koch's closest rival for the Democratic mayoral nomination, Carol Bellamy, urged him to keep quiet during the...

Comment by Jonathan Schell. The Entertainment Channel, a cable t.v. service attempting to offer better quality&whose head was Arthur R. Taylor, former pres. of CBS, Inc. failed because Taylor used his own aesthetic judgment&corrupted the purity of commercial dealings with artistic considerations. Michael J. Hejny, chief procurer of hard-cover...

The Talk of the Town Big Building by William McKibben. Talk story about a new building called The Manhattan, which rises from West 52nd Street and affords a view of both the Hudson and the East Rivers. Writer visited the building, riding the construction elevator up to the 40th floor for a topping-off ceremony for the new tower. The...

The Theatre WHISTLIN' IN THE DARK by Brendan Gill.

Musical Events by Andrew Porter.

A Reporter at Large HIROSHIMA: THE AFTERMATH by John Hersey. REPORTER AT LARGE about the six people whose experiences in Hiroshima the writer described in an article written a year after the bomb was dropped. Tells what each of the six was doing when the bomb exploded, and how it effected them. Most of them suffered from some kind of...

Fiction Lichen by Alice Munro. Stella's father built the summerhouse where she lived all year, alone. She was a short, fat, white-haired woman. Her husband, David, from whom she had been separated for 8 years, came to visit her with his girlfriend, Catherine. He&Stella had been married for 21 yrs. Once every...

Books by Susan Lardner.

Comment by William McKibben. While in Mississippi, writer visited Sugar Ditch Alley which runs for 2 blocks or more behind the main street of Tunica, Mississippi, a Delta town 30 miles wouth of Memphis. Writer describes squalid, slum-like conditions. All the people in the Alley are black. Even the Reagan Administration, through the...

The Talk of the Town Sellars at Purchase by Jane Boutwell. Talk story about a visit to SUNY Purchase in Westchester to see a rehearsal of Peter Sellars' production of Handel's "Guilio Cesare in Egitto." Sellars is the 27 yr. old director of the American National Theatre. He produced this opera for the Pepsico Summerfare Festival at Purchase. His settings are...

Poetry Eight Poems by Czeslaw Milosz. Rustling taffetas. At sunset in a park by the Pripet River...