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October 19, 1998

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From the Issue

Cryptic Crossword

The Cryptic Crossword: No. 63

By Mike Shenk

Postcard from Rome

Coffee Clash

By Michael Specter

The Talk of the Town

The Sporting Scene

Photograph

Poured Over

By Arnold Newman

The Art World

Poured Over

By Adam Gopnik

The Sporting Scene

Catch-and-Dissect

By John McPhee

Briefly Noted

Newsbreak

Block That Metaphor!

The Theatre

Dancing in the Dark

By John Lahr

Books

Infinite Exercise

By Anthony Lane

The Talk of the Town

On the Ropes

By Michael Shapiro

Comment

Buckle up. Here we go.

By Hendrik Hertzberg

On and Off the Avenue

Semper Fi

The Political Scene

The Vision Thing

By Joe Klein

The Current Cinema

No Picnic

By Anthony Lane

Briefly Noted

The Talk of the Town

Dept. of Comebacks

By Andrew Goldman

Shouts & Murmurs

Penny-wise, Penny-foolish

By Mark Singer

Briefly Noted

Poems

Autumn’s Sidereal, November’s a Ball and Chain

By Charles Wright

The Current Cinema

No Picnic

By Anthony Lane

Photograph

Dancing in the Dark

By Max Vadukul

Photograph

Tongue In Chic

By Max Vadukul

The Talk of the Town

The Creative Life

By David Owen

The Talk of the Town

Dept. of Give and Take

By Nancy Franklin

On Television

Autumn in New York

By Nancy Franklin

Puzzle

8 x 10 Cryptic

By Mike Shenk

Fiction

Mexico

By T. Coraghessan Boyle

Newsbreak

Dept. of Clarification

Briefly Noted

Annals of Medicine

A Healing Hell

Bone-marrow transplantation may be the worst treatment in all of modern medicine—and the best.

By Jerome Groopman

Solution

Answers to 8 x 10 Cryptic No. 62

By Trip Payne

Poems

Indian Summer II

By Charles Wright

Profiles

The Dictator

By Jon Lee Anderson