Fiction Skeletons by Ann Beattie. It was late Saturday afternoon & as usual Nancy was spending the day with Garrett. They were both artists, & had met in drawing class. Nancy could hear Kyle singing downstairs. He was the other tenant in the rooming house Garrett lived in, a student at the Univ. of Penn...

Reflections A BETTER TODAY by Jonathan Schell. REFLECTIONS about the oppostion in Poland. It remains active 4 years after the military government of Gen. Jaruzelski declared a "state of war" and banned the independent trade-union federation Solidarity. The most important feature of the Polish movement is its answer to totalitarian violence and deception which is the...

Dancing by Arlene Croce.

The Theatre WINNING LOSERS by Brendan Gill.

Books by Naomi Bliven.

Our Far-Flung Correspondents THE HIMALAYA REVISITED by Jeremy Bernstein. OUR FAR-FLUNG CORRESPONDENTS about trekking in Nepal. The writer was one of 35 people under the guidance of Claude Jaccoux, who organizes trips to out-of-the-way parts of the world. It was with Jaccoux that writer had first trekked in Nepal, in 1967. Tells how trekking has...

Around City Hall Unholy Alliances by Andy Logan. On Jan. 8, Donald Manes, borough president of Queens, who is also the Democratic boss of that borough, & controls patronage, public development projects & politics there, won a big victory for himself & his good friend & ally, the Mayor. At the end of 1985 Thomas Cuite resigned as...

The Talk of the Town Universe by Gwyneth Cravens. Lengthy talk story about Tim Ferris who has written and narrated the PBS TV documentary "The Creation of the Universe". The Show is about the current search by physicists for a single law to account for the behavior of all matter and energy at the instant the universe was born...

Fiction Patterns by Tama Janowitz. Writer just broke up with her boyfriend & moved into an apartment in the meat-market district. It was hard living alone. She kept waiting for someone to yell at her. She decided to have a relationship with Wilfredo, a very well-known fashion designer. Recently his manager had skipped...

Comment by Jonathan Schell. News in our day is supposed to flash around the world at the speed of light, "shrinking"our planet & making of it the famed global village, but from some regions, it turns out information comes slowly... Thos regions far from being crowded into a global village, sometimes seem to...

The Talk of the Town Airport Lobsters by Mark Singer. Talk story about lobsters sold by vendors in LaGuardia Airport, in question-&-answer format: Are the Airport Lobsters people in business for their health? They are not. They are doing what they are doing for the integrity of the concept. What is the concept? The Airport Lobsters concept is...

Poetry Shaker by James Schuyler. There was simply...

Poetry Snow Sundown by Dave Smith. The sun through the trees, a flash...