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PORTRAIT OF THE WEEK
The SpectatorThe Battle of Britain II A midst considerable ballyhoo Mr Gorbachev visited Britain; his invitation to the Queen to visit the Soviet Union was accepted 'in due course'. The...
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The SpectatorThe Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LL Telephone 01-405 1706; Telex 27124; Fax 242 0603 SOVIET DISUNION C ontrary to expectations, Mr Gor- bachev did not mention...
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POLITICS
The SpectatorThe Lord Chancellor who dared to cross the Bar NOEL MALCOLM Sunset and evening star, And one clear call for me! And may there be no moaning of the Bar, When I put out to sea,...
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DIARY
The SpectatorCHARLES MOORE t is 30 years ago this week that British European Airways, as it then was, opened its first service to Moscow. On board the first Viscount to arrive in Moscow was...
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ANOTHER VOICE
The SpectatorHomage from Rioja, or travels with my cousin Raymond AUBERON WAUGH n Tuesday of this week, Sir 0 Raymond Carr celebrated his 70th birth- day. That would of itself be...
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TRIBUNES OF THE PEOPLE
The SpectatorThe privatised utilities are being given orders by a protection is not extended to the public sector SIR Bryan Carsberg, the director general of Oftel, was just about to tell...
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CEAUSESCU'S MEMORIAL
The SpectatorJames de Candole experiences the police-ridden poverty of life in Rumania TWENTY-FOUR hours after arriving in Rumania, I was told to leave. The Sicur- itatea, Rumania's secret...
A DICTIONARY OF CANT
The SpectatorLIFESTYLE: This is something that happens in magazines, rather than peo- ple's lives. What it all means is that you can buy a certain ensemble of home furnishings, scents,...
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CHERCHEZ LA FEMME
The SpectatorMinette Marrin examines the use Mrs Thatcher has made of her gender TRYING to have things both ways, com- monly ascribed to women, is much more typical of politicians. Either...
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CHEQUE-BOOK PUBLISHING
The SpectatorMichael Lewis wonders if publishers have gone mad in their expansive mood I RECEIVED my first fat book contract a year ago and I still wonder whether it represents a shrewd...
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A COCAINE DEALER'S INVESTMENT PLANS
The SpectatorMelik Kaylan meets a pedlar of drugs by appointment to City folk VISITING London these days I am always dismayed by how insular and parochial it seems, how silly and...
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THE OLD MANIPULATOR
The SpectatorOutsiders: a profile of Peter Walker, detached Cabinet minister NO Enigma Machine was necessary to break the code in Peter Walker's address on Monday evening to the Tory...
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One hundred years ago
The SpectatorTHE Daily Telegraph of Friday pub- lishes a paper on the practice of dyeing hair which throws the oddest light upon some difficulties in the way of getting a living. It appears...
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SMART CARDS AND MONIED LADIES
The SpectatorThe media: Paul Johnson wants the privacy issue broadened THE British press has rarely if ever been held in lower esteem by the community. It systematically invades privacy....
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Scheme in the dock
The SpectatorTHE Government's talent-spotters must surely have their eye on David Davis, MP for Boothferry on the Humber, where dockside follies can be observed at first hand. Last year in...
Tiny's hands
The SpectatorHIGH comedy in the House of Lords, as Lord Keith of Kinkel, like some stern Scottish judicial nanny, asks Master Tiny if he has come into court with clean hands. She should know...
CITY AND SUBURBAN
The SpectatorNigel faces the inquisitors, with inflation as judge and jury CHRISTOPHER FILDES W e hang around in Westminster Hall like members of the Long Parliament, waiting to see some...
Soft landing, free lunch
The SpectatorTHIS week's inflation figure, we know, will mark the top of the cycle, which will start rolling down again to six per cent or so by the year end, but these numbers are heavily...
Prophet with honour
The SpectatorTHE man who first warned us of inflation's return has come back to the City. This is Tim Congdon, for long the economic sage of brokers Messel. Nigel Lawson says (and was saying...
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LETTERS
The SpectatorInflated notions Sir: Noel Malcolm's article on inflationary expectations (Politics, 1 April) is welcome, and expresses a view which is overdue for recognition. It is hard to...
Poisonous
The SpectatorSir: Mr Baker's reforms are obviously sorely needed: Alexandra Artley's article (Books, 18 March) contains the statement `dioxins (the most poisonous substance known to man)'....
Saving faith
The SpectatorSir: Roy Jenkins was not the first to experience 'Europe' as a religion (Books, 11 March). It began that way. In April 1962 Roy Jenkins persuaded a reluctant Gaitskell to meet...
Telephone manners
The SpectatorSir: I cannot resist adding my mite to the avalanche you have invited by publishing (1 April) James Michie on manners (not eti- quette, as your cover misleadingly suggests). He...
Right all along
The SpectatorSir: You say that I should have published the leaked DTI report 'at the first oppor- tunity — on Sunday 26 March' (Leading article, 8 April). But I didn't receive a copy of the...
Soviet fallacies
The SpectatorSir: Your Portrait of the week (1 April) gives credence to a popular fallacy: that the Soviet elections were a defeat for the Communist Party. They were not; the Soviet Union is...
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'CAN YOU DRAW PROPERLY IF YOU WANT TO?'
The SpectatorNICHOLAS GARLAND C artoonists are not always comical in daily life — but I know two who are. Michael Heath and David Austin both sprinkle their conversation with dry one-...
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In next week's Spectator SCOTTISH SPECIAL Poaching Scotland and Europe
The SpectatorHebridean Pakistanis Restaurants YOUNG ARTISTS PRIZE The winners Ferdinand Mount on V. S. Naipaul Raymond Carr on A. L. Rowse Richard West on Vietnam
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BOOKS
The SpectatorThe mask beneath the mask Bevis Hillier THE LIFE OF GRAHAM GREENE: VOLUME ONE 1904-1939 by Norman Sherry Jonathan Cape, f16.95, pp.783 T he backlash against the two-volume...
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Ring of falsehood
The SpectatorAnita Brookner A THEFT by Saul Bellow Penguin, f3.50, pp.109 C lara Velde, Bellow's entirely recog- nisable heroine, is a big, rich, excitable woman, scatty by most...
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One of them?
The SpectatorMatthew Parris ONE OF US by Hugo Young Macmillan, f16.95, pp.579 0 n deciding to leave Parliament I called on Mrs Thatcher to say — well 'Thank you and goodbye', I suppose....
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Ban!
The SpectatorThis book is dangerous, it must be banned. It names names and states addresses, it reveals careers and important positions, lists antecendents and marriages (potential for...
Murders of Quality
The SpectatorHarriet Waugh T he reader is warned by the cover of Ruth Rendell's new psychological novel, The Bridesmaid, that he is in for a gruesomely disturing time. It shows the head and...
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Funeral Games
The SpectatorThe slow, black bell seems still to nod, its shadow Trembles in the gloom, a musky perfume Faint in the ear and mingling with the sweet Blue smoky exequies and far receding chop...
Fragments of a national epic
The SpectatorPeter Levi THE YEAR 1905 by Boris Pasternak translated by Richard Chappell Spenser Books, £4.95, pp.80 THE EYESIGHT OF WASPS by Osip Mandelstam translated by James Greene...
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Truth and the Temples
The SpectatorMark Archer INSIDE THE BROTHERHOOD: FURTHER SECRETS OF THE FREEMASONS by Martin Short Grafton Books, £14.95, pp.531 THE TEMPLE AND THE LODGE by Michael Baigent and Richard...
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ARTS
The SpectatorSculpture Makonde: Wooden Sculpture from East Africa (Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, till 21 May, and touring) Out of Africa Tanya Harrod C ontemporary African artists have...
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Theatre
The SpectatorIvanov (Strand) Tender mists dispelled Christopher Edwards H ere is Chekhov in a new guise. Not everyone will approve. Neither production nor text reflects the _ favoured...
Cinema
The SpectatorPatty Hearst (`18', Metro) Daughter of the revolution Hilary Mantel P aul Schrader's film begins with a mon- tage of family snapshots and a background of hoarse,...
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Dance
The SpectatorRambert Dance Company (Sadlers Wells, till 15 April, and touring) Pure and plain Deirdre McMahon T his year Richard Alston, artistic direc- tor of the Rambert Dance Company,...
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Pop music
The SpectatorWorld weary Marcus Berkmann T he world music bandwagon rolls on. So far, to be honest, I have not seen any rousing popular support for the whole idea, beyond the usual coterie...
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Television
The SpectatorWell timed Wendy Cope I t surprises and pleases me to learn that some readers take this column seriously enough to allow it to influence their viewing habits. The first...
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High life
The SpectatorRiding for a fall Taki Poor Sebastian. Watching the lower middle class get rich must be as painful for him as passing a kidney stone. I watched him looking mournful later on...
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Low life
The SpectatorButton- Jeffrey Bernard L ast week I was astonished to read that Brigham Young had 55 wives. He must have been mad. Did he manage, I wonder, to call them all by their right...
Home life
The SpectatorObstacle course Alice Thomas Ellis I am going, as it were, to write on the pavements of Camden Town. Our neigh- bour once did this literally — she used to sit down and spell...
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CROSSWORD
The SpectatorA first prize of £20 and two further prizes of £10 (or, for UK solvers, a copy of Chambers English Dictionary — ring the word `Dictionary') for the first three correct solutions...
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COMPETITION
The SpectatorA to E Jaspistos I n Competition No. 1569 you were in- vited to produce a piece of plausible prose in which every word begins with one of the first five letters of the...
CHESS
The SpectatorNigel's interest Raymond Keene N igel Short has the chance of his life in the Barcelona World Cup. Kasparov has been off form, and with a burst of four wins at the midway...
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The SpectatorThe Park Room WHEN you think of an Italian restaurant you think of somewhere small, cosy and bustlingly intimate, somewhere precisely at the other end of the spectrum from the...
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No. 1572: To Russia with love You are invited to
The Spectatorwrite a poet-laureatish poem (maximum 16 lines) in celebration of the Queen's forthcoming visit to Moscow. Style need not be contemporary. Entries to 'Competition No. 1572' by...