The Theatre THE MATHEMATICIAN by Edith Oliver.

Letter from Europe by Jane Kramer. Tells about the life & arrest of Portuguese military figure & revolutionary Otelo Nuno Romano Saraiva de Carvalho. He was 1 of 3 young officers who led the peaceable Portuguese revolution that began Apr. 25, 1974. Today he is 51 & a prisoner in Caxias, an Army prison he helped...

Fiction Father by Sergei Dovlatov. Donat, the narrator's father, was an actor. He went off to Leningrad to study drama, and became a director. Things went well, but anxious times began. His friends suddenly began disappearing. Writer's mother cursed Stalin for what was happening; his father said each person who disappeared had a shortcoming. Until...

The Talk of the Town Fully Employed by Mark Singer. Talk story about the recent Fad Fair III at the Sheraton Centre Hotel. One of the participants was Diane Carty. For a year and a half now, working on Owie Wowies has been her only occupation. Owie Wowies are stick-on plastic bandages shaped like characters that Diane Carty personally...

Comment by Andrea Lee. A comment about the differences between Italy & America, & mainly about the differences in automobiles... The people in the southern California D.M.V. were people whose subconscious had at its very center the possibility--the pleasure--of going a long way in a big, lazy car; people who sometimes spoke...

The Talk of the Town The Hustle by Susan Orlean. Talk story about Frank Stella, who for 30 years has deconstructed pictorial structure and challenged representational art with his formalist paintings. Stella is a C-level squash player who has been playing for 8 years. Stella has a large show of art work on display now at the Museum of...

Profiles WALL POWER by Mark Singer. PROFILE of W. Graham Arader III, 37, a purveyor of 16th to 19th century paintings, Early American engravings, watercolors & prints, important natural history color plate books maps & atlases, autographs & manuscripts. He buys & sells more original prints, usually copper engravings from rare color-plate books, than anyone...

Fiction Volpone by Jane Shapiro. The narrator meets William, her former husband, in Vermont to see their son Zachary perform the lead in his college production of "Volpone." Peppy, William's father, is there, and Nora, their daughter, has cut her last class and driven up from Saratoga. It's the first time in 3 years the...

The Talk of the Town Guerrillas by Nancy Ramsey. Talk story about the performers Clark Halstead (a Manhattan real estate broker) has hired to perform on the street--actors and actresses to jump out of cars and do an act, to promote a new office Halstead is opening in SoHo. On Black Monday, 2 lyricists/actors/singers named Doug...

Musical Events by Andrew Porter.

The Current Cinema THE MANCHURIAN CONFORMIST by Pauline Kael.

Poetry The Wyoming Poetry Tour by Stanley Plumly. Climbing down out of the rain, which is what...