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TABLE OF CONTENTS
ARTICLES
65 Cruising Blues and Their Cure — Robert Pirsig
70 Let Us Now Praise (Faintly) Famous Economists — John Kenneth Galbraith
72 Woody Allen Wipes the Smile Off His Face — Frank Rich
128 How Now, Fellatio! Why Dost Thou Tarry? — Helen Lawrenson
150 To Hell with Golf! — Charles Price
IT’S 1977. DO YOU KNOW WHO YOUR FRIENDS ARE?
81 Esquire’s Twenty-seven Rules of Friendship
83 Best Friends — Photographed by Maureen Lambray
87 An Illuminated History of a Model Friendship — Geoffrey Wolff
90 The Friendship Survey — Erica Jong, Susan Brownmiller, Ronald Reagan, Dorothy Hamill, Jerry Rubin, Billie Jean King, Mildred Newman and Bernard Berkowitz, Jodie Foster
92 How To Profit More from the Teachings of Clara Schacht Than from All the Wisdom of Aristotle, Montaigne, Emerson, Seneca, Cicero et al. — Cynthia Ozick
FEATURES
69 David Levine’s Vanity Fair
94 The Clean Sound of Music — Dave Marsh
97 True Soot — Dennis Smith, with photographs by Jill Freedman
101 Nothing Fancy — Douglas Bauer
104 Wondrous Women: Four Bets TV Is Missing
TENNIS
108 Playing with the Stars — Grace Lichtenstein
110 The Perfect Tennis Partner — Jeff Greenfield
FICTION
78 Mother Yaws — Tennessee Williams
118 This Domain, That Dominion — Anne Leaton
FASHION
112 Tops and Bottoms
DEPARTMENTS
10 Media: Nora Ephron — Working the Double-Crostic
14 The Sound and the Fury — Letters from our readers
16 Getting Away: Stephen Birnbaum — The irresistible great trains
28 Washington: Taylor Branch — Where Jimmy went wrong
32 The Coast: Joan Didion — Getting the Vegas willies
34 Backstage with Esquire — The view from within
36 The Language: John Simon — … what is life for, unless to do at least some things right?
42 Sports: Roy Blount Jr. — In batting practice, even you can be Johnny Bench
54 Book Watch: D. Keith Mano — Remembering: It’s a dirty job but somebody has to do it
60 Grits: Harry Crews — The most kindest cut of all: Vasectomy
156 Outdoors: Robert Traver — The world’s best maple syrup