On and Off the Avenue ON AND OFF THE AVENUE Christmas Toys for Children by Andy Logan. 1974 was quite a record-breaking Monopoly year. Among the new records set was that for the longest game with three players (250 hrs. in Winston Salem, N.C.), the longest game played in an elevator (148 hrs., in Torrance, Cal.), and the longest game played underwater (13 hrs. and 10...

Fiction And Then The Whining Schoolboy, With His Satchell by S. J. Perelman. The writer recalls an incident from his boyhood in Providence, R. I. At the age of 15 he wrote an essay on his life, and his teacher wanted to discuss it with him. She chose to do so at a sweet shop called Gibsons as it was cozier than talking...

A Reporter at Large II-GLOBAL REACH by Richard J. Barnet. REPORTER AT LARGE about the unfavorable impact of global corporations on the U.S...

The Race Track by G. F. T. Ryall. Free Hand won the Queens County Handicap on Thanksgiving Day. Free Hand was the 130th winner Pancho Martin (trainer) had saddle on the New York tracks this season - a figure that broke the record set in 1936 by the late Hirsch Jacobs...

The Air (On Television) by Michael J. Arlen.

The Talk of the Town Excitement, Fun, and Fiendish Fascination by Mark Singer. Talk story about an evening of computer art at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York on W. 42 St. Most computer art exists on TV screens & tape recordings. Gives examples of it shown on TV programs. In the auditorium of the Graduate Center were 3...

The Current Cinema by Pauline Kael. Review of "A Woman Under the Influence", a John Cassavetes film. He is a disciple of R.D. Laing, and this film is a didactic illustration of Laing's version of insanity...

The Talk of the Town Meet Miss Subways by Ian Frazier. Talk story about Miss Subways, Marci Kilpatrick. Miss Kilpatrick is an administrative assistant to the vice-president of OTB...

Musical Events by Andrew Porter.

The Talk of the Town Randy Newman by Ian Frazier. Talk story about Bandy Newman, the songwriter, composer & part-time rock star. His lyrics are about often overlooked topics, such as Utah. He once wrote a song about a girl and a beach-cleaning truck. He is getting popular and has been on the TV rock shows "In Concert...

Comment by Julie Hayden. Quotes from a letter received from a New Yorker who has been taking the waters at an artists' colony in New Hampshire. She often drinks Tab, a sugar-free variety of Coca-Cola. She notes its contents, which includes caffeine. She wrote to the company asking if it contained enough...

The Theatre by Brendan Gill.

The Talk of the Town Small Worlds by Mark Singer. Talk story about the store, Small Worlds-Vivariums (East 88th St) that specializes in making various types of lizards feel as if they hadn't left home. The owners are Susan and Vern French. Small Worlds deals in four basic types of vivariums--woodland, desert, riverbank, & tropical--and the proprietors...

Dancing by Arlene Croce.

Profiles BOFFOS AND BUSTOS by E. J. Kahn. PROFILE of Arthur Loeb Mayer, the 87-yr. old movie businessman, now a motion-picture pedagogue. He was one of the first to make people aware that motion pictures were a truly international art an an international form of communication. He was also unique to the film indutry in that...

Books by Naomi Bliven.

Poetry Buried City by Howard Moss. If you have come, expecting miracles...