Cover artist: Arnie Levin Publication Date: May 4, 1987 Page Count: 156 pages In this issue:Fiction Ex Libris by Penelope Gilliatt. Early-closing deadline of a London architectural journal called The Rocket. Staff coming in and out of pub next door. There, Marion Hodgins (22, shy but taken on to be dashing) speaks with David FitzDrummon, 50, the chief book reviewer. He was divorced, from a childhood friend who'd gone crazy... The Talk of the Town Stanley Williams by Holly Brubach. Talk story about a luncheon at the Juillard building honoring Stanley Williams. The School of American Ballet announced that he had been named to its first Senior Faculty Chair, endowed by the Brown Foundation, Inc. and Mrs. Fayez Sarofim. Mr. Williams has taught technique classes for boys & girls in... A Reporter at Large II-VEHEMENT FIRE by Bryan Di Salvatore. A REPORTER AT LARGE about the uses & history of dynamite. Until 1985, there was no licensing system in Montana for blasters. On the tight end of the regulatory scale is Pennsylvania. Tells about the regulatory requirements for blasters. The Institute of Makers of Explosives is the industry's Washington-based... Fiction More Clinical Tales by Richard Liebmann-Smith. Parody of Oliver Sacks' book, "The Man who Mistook his Wife for a Hat" about Sacks' experience as a psychiatrist with patients who had neurological disorders. The first example here is The Man who Mistook his Wife for a Dishwasher. The second example is called A Prodigy Lost, about the... The Current Cinema VAMPS by Pauline Kael. Letter from Washington by Elizabeth Drew. From the outset, there seemed something odd about the Reagan Administration's apparent eagerness to reach an agreement with the Soviets on intermediate-range nuclear forces (I.N.F.) since arms-control policy is still dominated by those who oppose arms control. But then the logic of the situation becomes clear. Few people... Comment by John Newhouse. The din in Washington set off by a breach in our Moscow embassy's defense against spies is very odd, even for an Administration that seems to crave sideshows. The Reagan people must know that embassies in Moscow teem with listening devices & that the KGB is always doing its considerable... The Talk of the Town Sheep Down Under by Bobbie Ann Mason. Talk story about a young woman and her friend Sharon, who are vacationing in New Zealand. They're crazy about New Zealand! It's got everything: alps and tropical beaches and rain forests and fjords and the most wonderful, complicated hills. She describes the landscape and the weather (it's fall now and... Musical Events by Andrew Porter. The Talk of the Town Raisins by Stanley Mieses. A talk story about the opening night of "The Festival of Claymation," a collection of short films by Will Vinton. Hasty played the part of a raisin in a P.R. stunt outside the Metro Cinema on opening night. A Fresno native, he said, "Never in my wildest dreams did I... Books by George Steiner. The Theatre MILLER'S "SONS" by Edith Oliver. The Sporting Scene THE ARMS TALKS by Roger Angell. THE SPORTING SCENE about baseball and spring training. This year the writer toured the March camps in Arizona and Florida and tells about it. This spring and last spring he passed many hours in the company of coaches & managers and players-older players, for the most part-as he... Poetry Grandmother's Rug by Mary Stewart Hammond. On days when I'm not listening... Poetry Frost by John Ashbery. Trapped in the wrong dream, you turn... |