Cartoon Fast Food by Saul Steinberg. Cartoon spread of seven pictures in a futuristic style...

Comment by Jonathan Schell. Comment about the current U.S. concept of the Soviet Union's global policy, as expressed in several statements by members of the executive branch, and as distinquished from the way the U.S. has viewed Soviet Communist policy for 30 years. Quotes Secretary of State Henry Kissinger's remarks during a speech in...

The Talk of the Town Headquarters by Mark Singer. Talk story about Presidential campaign headquarters in NYC. Tells about headquarters of Sam(Mr. Clean) Silverstein, an independent write-in candidate whose real name is Allan Pinsker, Senator Henry Jackson, Senator Birch Bayh, Senator Fred Harris, President Ford, Stanley Arnold(a marketing consultant), Peter Camejo of the Socialist Workers Party...

The Talk of the Town Turn Backward, O Time! by Anthony Hiss. Talk story about the renovation of the Plaza Hotel. On the day that Joseph Trombetti, the executive chef at the Plaza for nineteen years, was awarded the Grand Prize of the Salon of Culinary Art, the writer had dinner, in the Plaza's Oak Room, with the old curmudgeon. Talks about...

The Current Cinema LIBEL by Pauline Kael.

The Art World (The Art Galleries) Purifying Art by Harold Rosenberg.

The Theatre Off Broadway by Edith Oliver.

Musical Events Pianists and Pianos by Andrew Porter.

Performance Saint by Jonathan Schell. Talk story about performance of "The Saint and the Football Players," an avant-garde, ballet like theatre piece, at the Activities Resource Center of Pratt Institute in Brooklyn. The Center, not many years ago, was noted for its flamboyance in the theatre world...

Jazz New York Notes by Whitney Balliett.

Fiction By Destiny Denied (Notes for an Eight-Hundred-Page Novel-The Big Hook They're All Waiting For) by Woody Allen. Notes for a novel. Background-Scotland, 1823: Solomon Entwhistle is arrested for stealing a crust of bread. He's locked in a dungeon but tunnels his way from Glasgow to London where he sails to the New World. He founds Entwhistle's department store. Locale and observations, 1976: Description of stores on...

Profiles SOME SPLENDID AND ADMIRABLE PEOPLE by Geoffrey T. Hellman. PROFILE of the American Academy of Arts & Letters & the National Institute of Arts & Letters, located on Broadway, between 155 & 156 St. on Audubon Terrace. Several other institutions are on the Terrace. All were given their plots & buildings by Archer M. Huntington. The Institute started out...

Fiction Notes On A Distant Prospect by Robert Fitzgerald. During the writer's boyhood, from his 8th year to his 18th, his father lay all day in the next room. His left hipbone was tubercular. The writer had a very good, direct sense of what it meant to die; it meant not to be there at all anymore. His mother...

Books Suzie Creamcheese Speaks by John Updike.

Poetry At The Cantina by Gary Soto. In the cantina...

Poetry Numbered Apartments by W. S. Merwin. In every room rubber bands turn up loose...

Poetry Country Stars by William Meredith. The nearsighted child has taken off her glasses...