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October 14, 1972

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From the Issue

Rock, Etc.

Bowie’s Limitations

By Ellen Willis

The Talk of the Town

Two Gatherings

By Victor Chen

Fiction

The Bangor Man

By Garrison Keillor

U.S. Journal

U.S. JOURNAL: FOREST CITY, IOWA A DAY IN THE BACK ROOM

By Calvin Trillin

Our Local Correspondents

THE CHANCELLOR

By Nat Hentoff

Books

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The Talk of the Town

Tunnel

By Fred C. Shapiro

Poems

Prayer to the Good Poet

By James Wright

Musical Events

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By Andrew Porter

The Talk of the Town

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By Anthony Hiss

The Current Cinema

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By Pauline Kael

Poems

Thursday

By Terry Stokes

On and Off the Avenue

Feminine Fashions

By Kennedy Fraser

Profiles

II-MAKING A NOISE IN THE WORLD

By Brendan Gill

The Race Track

THE RACE TRACK

By G. F. T. Ryall

Comment

Comment

By Jonathan Schell

The Theatre

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By Edith Oliver

Fiction

Animal Behavior

By Laurie Colwin

Poems

At the State Mental Hospital (Byberry, Pa.)

By S. J. Marks