Fiction Curbsiders On Parade (Illus.) by Bruce McCall. Twelve drawings of a collection of "doorman cards:" collectable cards each featuring a different doorman. Describes each card, with information about the doorman and the card itself. For example: "Federated Linen's 1978 Cab-stoppers line depicted doormen of the oft-neglected one-star and unrated hotels - like Emil Cudahay of...

The Art World (The Art Galleries) by Sanford Schwartz.

A Reporter at Large II-A KIND OF COMMONS by Orville Schell. REPORTER AT LARGE about the practice of feeding antibiotics to livestock to prevent disease & promote growth. This use has become so widespread that animals are building up resistance to the drugs. Scientists have found that drug resistance is a highly transferrable trait and could be passed from animals...

Comment by Jonathan Schell. It's perhaps an irremediable fact that people in public office must deal with 2 kinds of "reality,"-as it is and political reality. When the 2 draw too far apart, tragedy isn't far behind. A case in point is the current debate over U.S. policy in Central America. In Nicaragua...

Books by William Maxwell.

Fiction Thrift by Patricia Page. Margery Carmichael, living in Texas, was married to Francis, a successful lawyer, who when in certain moods would not speak to her or listen to her. She had not been in love with him when they married, having mistaken love for sexual eagerness. She'd had her first orgasm on a...

Musical Events by Andrew Porter.

A Political Journal by Elizabeth Drew. President Reagan, to the relief of his key aides, has been essentially out of sight recently, and out of the reach of campaign controversies. The press can't focus on many things at once, and Hart's upset of Mondale took the attention away from the question of whether Reagan is on...

The Talk of the Town Excerpts by Wallace White. Talk story about the Musical Theatre Program at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, which staged a mini-musical at the Dramatists Guild on W. 44th Street. A number of Broadway producers, directors, writers and actors came, including playwright and director Arthur Laurents. A graduate student in the...

The Current Cinema EXALTATION/ESCAPISM by Pauline Kael.

The Talk of the Town Oases by William McKibben. First part of a three part talk story on parks. Bryant Park is the park behind the library. Writer tells how he likes to go there at this time of year. Then he tells about attending a public hearing whose chief topic was whether to endorse a plan for a...

Poetry Those Goats by Arthur Smith. These are the tropics, unheard of...

Poetry Now by Cynthia Zarin. It's spring out, and the acrid...

Poetry The Dream of South by Norman Williams. I dream, now, of a dream vacation...