Cover artist: Abel Quezada Publication Date: January 10, 1983 Page Count: 100 pages In this issue:Comment by Vickie Karp. A young stockbroker friend writes: I am leaving Wall Street soon after the first of the year for the West Coast. Now, the thing is how to adapt without quite leaving my comfy Northeast self behind and what to do with all the presents from my East Coast Christmas. I... Fiction Feeders by Frederick Barthelme. When Mrs. Jaymar moves out of Eddie's duplex apartment, his old girlfriend Iris wants to move in with her roommate Polly. Eddie isn't sure this is a good idea, but the 3 of them meet in Coleman's, a restaurant Iris and Eddie used to frequent, to talk it over. Eddie... Fiction (for Vaclav Havel) by Samuel Beckett. Story in the form of a play dedicated to a Czech dissident playwright who is presently imprisoned in Czechoslovakia. It represents a director manipulating a figure until it is finally acceptable. The director gives orders to his female assistant, who removes the protagonist's coat and whitens his cranium. The assistant... Fiction Hearing from Wayne by William Franzen. The narrator, who works at a store called Stereo Shack, gets a postcard from his best friend and co-worker, Wayne whom he knows to be dead. The narrator tells us first off that his real fear of an afterlife is that instead of being reunited with family and friends... The Talk of the Town The Ride by Fred Iseman. Talk story about the Fourth Annual Christmas Ride of the Claremont Riding Academy, in which 51 horses carrying riders in full foxhunting attire rode through Central Park. The ride ended with a sort of mounted cocktail party in the terrace of the Central Park restaurant Tavern-on-the-Green. Waiters... Profiles I-A WAY OF MAKING THINGS HAPPEN by Helen Drees Ruttencutter. PROFILE of Andre Previn, music director of the Pittsburgh Symphony. Tells about his TV series "Previn and the Pittsburgh" shown from 1976 to 1979 when the money ran out. When writer was in Pittsburgh she visited WQED and talked with Stephen Dick, the producer of the series... Jazz Otis Ferguson by Whitney Balliett. The Talk of the Town A Working Brain by Lillian Ross. Talk story about an interview with Dr. Gerald Edelman, the director of the one-year-old Neurosciences Institute (NSI) which is dedicated to the study of the human brain. Edelman molecular biologist and head of the Laboratory of Molecular and Developmental Biology at the Rockefeller University and scientific chairman of... The Current Cinema THE COOL AND THE DEAD by Pauline Kael. The Theatre Ersatz Shaffer by Edith Oliver. Books Rebel Without a Cause by Naomi Bliven. Poetry Ballad of Love Through the Ages by Carlos Drummond De Andrade. From the beginning of time... Poetry Walking by the Cliffside Dyeworks by Robert Carnevale. Even the dark end of Belmont Avenue... |