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TABLE OF CONTENTS
ARTICLES
53 Celebrity Shrinks — Susan Edmiston
66 Lena Horne Is 60 — Orde Coombs
69 A Significant Little Gun — Andrew St. George
82 The Trucker Militant — Harry Crews
119 Taping Off the Air — Hans Fantel
SPECIAL SECTION: SWIM FASTER, BETTER AND SEXIER
58 How To Make It in the Water — Harry Stein
60 Ten Ways To Win Your Fins
62 Ten Things To Just Add Water To
64 Five Great Bodies (of Water)
FEATURES
20 David Levine’s Vanity Fair
74 The Queen: A Dossier — Jon Bradshaw
77 American Writers: Who’s Up, Who’s Down?
85 Pacific Overture — Stephen Birnbaum and Will McBride
98 Quick, Make a Mussel! — Eric Lax
FICTION
94 Decades — Gilbert Sorrentino
POETRY
124 Eight Poems — Jack Gilbert
FASHION
97 Summer Shades
102 Formidable Fall Fashions from France
141 An Apron for Men
DEPARTMENTS
8 The Sound and the Fury — Letters from our readers
10 Backstage with Esquire — The view from within
12 Money: Andrew Tobias — The great chain robbery
17 Sports: Roy Blount Jr. — Sometimes the ball just takes a funny bounce
22 The Language: John Simon — The good and bad of Gore Vidal
28 Books: Alfred Kazin — The legend of Lillian Hellman
32 The Coast: Joan Didion — O my America
38 Grits: Harry Crews — Climbing the tower
40 Media: Richard Reeves — Equal credit for ghosts
42 Getting Away: Stephen Birnbaum — First pass at the Pacific
142 Outdoors: William Hjortsberg — The joy of maps