1 JULY 1989

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PORTRAIT OF THE WEEK

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A fter Tory ill-success in last week's Euro-elections, a new opinion poll put the party's popularity with voters .14 per cent behind Labour's. The Chancellor said that mortgage...

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S P ECTAT THE OR

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DIARY

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P. D.JAMES T he Society of Authors has announced that it is to administer two new literary prizes; the Prevo Prize funded by Lucy Astor for second novels, and the McKitter- ick...

Noel Malcolm is abroad.

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ANOTHER VOICE

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One more triumph for devils and sorrow for angels AUBERON WAUGH F riday, which was marked in England by the publication of Professor Brian Cox's final report to the National...

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A TALE OF THREE CITIES

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Timothy Garton Ash explores the connections between an election in Warsaw, a funeral in Budapest and a Soviet leader in Bonn THE general crisis of communism has loosened the...

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STILL VERY FLAT, SHANGHAI

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China's shrewdest city stands to do well out of the bloodbath in Peking, reports Murray Sayle Shanghai ARRIVING two weeks ago at the dead of night the only foreigner on a...

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A calendar for 1989 by Posy Simmonds

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July July's woman of the month is Gillian Button, 25 years, 1st class degree in French and Drama, a producer's P.A. at Broadcasting House, earning £9,000 per annum. Gillian is...

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STATESIDE PLEASURE DOME

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Melik Kaylan explores the strange world of a Manhattan drug-dealer New York THERE is a certain kind of name-dropper whose range of acquaintance grows so wide and nuanced over...

One hundred years ago

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THE air in the French Chamber is getting charged with electricity. Nobody has been killed yet; but on Tuesday four Deputies, the Republicans M. Arene and M. Etienne, and the...

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BLUE GREENHOUSE EFFECT

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Michael Trend stood in the Euro-elections. He found resentment towards the Tory leadership THERE is much talk at the moment among Conservatives about the 'Green- house...

THE SUITS

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Michael Heath

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AN EYE TO THE MAIN CHANCE

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The press: Paul Johnson welcomes the progress of journalists from status to contract IN THE early 1930s, Stanley Baldwin, then leader of the Tory Party and number two in...

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THE ECONOMY

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Irresistible force meets immovable handbag JOCK BRUCE-GA RDYNE I know that it is, just now, a profoundly unfashionable thing to do. But I suggest that we should raise a toast...

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Paper merchant

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I AM startled to find, beaming at me from the financial pages, the familiar face of Sir Kenneth Berrill, erstwhile chairman of the Securities and Investments Board, and the...

CITY AND SUBURBAN

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The Treasury gets back to business as the great house bubble goes pop CHRISTOPHER FILDES I t seems a long time since the Treasury and the Bank of England, enjoying the rare...

A touch of paranoia

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THE approach of the Madrid summit was signalled by another lecture from Lord Cockfield. He called the Govern- ment paranoid in its attachment to a concept of sovereignty which...

Reduce to clear

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SOME of the money has gone into stocks. We are tracing a familiar pattern — de- mand slows down and stocks pile up. The next phase sees the early birds getting stocks down by...

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A dog writes

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Sir: I must speak for all your canine readers — and, I hope, for others too — in regretting Alexandra Artley's article `Everything but the bark' (24 June). We should remember,...

Directors' pay

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Sir: Your contributor, Dominic Lawson Mow the bosses help themselves,' 17 June), draws useful attention both to the questionable level of some directors' re- muneration and also...

Right of abode

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Sir: To the Whitehall record of reckless- ness over Hong Kong (Letters and Leading article, 10 June) I would like to throw in my two pennies' worth: in early 1987 the Department...

LETTERS Chinese slaughter

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Sir: Auberon Waugh may be mistaken (Another voice, 11 June) in predicting that a British government, of either Left or Right, would send in the army, if faced with a situation...

Sir: I was in Peking at the time of the

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massacre. The corpse of a nine-year-old boy with seven bullet wounds was brought onto campus. I saw bloodstained students returning with tear-gas canisters, bullets and the...

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BOOKS

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A brutish band of brothers Bevis Hillier PRE-RAPHAELITES IN LOVE by Gay Daly Collins, f15, pp.468 magazine for the newly-founded British Museum Society (a 'Friends'...

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Decline and fall of a dandy

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Anita Brookner BAUDELAIRE by Claude Pichois Hamish Hamilton, £20, pp.430 B audelaire continues to exert the horrible fascination of the scapegoat or black sheep, depending on...

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The story behind the myth

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Richard Shone CARRINGTON: A LIFE OF DORA CARRINGTON 1893 - 1932 by Grechten Gerzina John Murray, £18.95, pp.342 D ora Carrington is more famous for the circumstances of her...

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The spy who went out to the warm

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Harriet Waugh THE RUSSIA HOUSE by John le Carre Hodder & Stoughton, £12.95, pp.344 adly, Smiley is absent from this tale of love and espionage across the East-West divide. The...

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Ludwig van's fans

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Noel Malcolm REMEMBERING BEETHOVEN: THE ORIGINAL BIOGRAPHY by Franz Wegeler and Ferdinand Ries Deutsch, £11.95, pp.200 N o sooner had Beethoven died than the biographer and...

Here

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Living here, I may nod at the seasons And leave the years uncounted. On summer Evenings, bats are pulled like threads down my Garden, squeaking their rubber soles, but signs Of...

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ARTS

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Crafts Going to pot I t is very encouraging that recently stu- dio ceramics have been in the news. Sadly this is due not to any fresh insights or recognition from our jaded...

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Exhibitions 1

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Going Dutch Giles Auty enjoys a crash course in the art and culture of Holland L ast week I attended what might be described fairly as a cultural commando course in Holland. So...

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Theatre

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The Grapes of Wrath (Lyttelton) Our Ellen (Battersea Arts Centre) Pilgrims' regress Christopher Edwards Ithough it is in London only for a very brief run at the National...

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0 2f - tfuLrcrEatQt

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ARTS DIARY A monthly selection of forthcoming events recommended by The Spectator's regular critics. OPERA Vitalism in Alger!, Covent Garden (240 1066), 11 July. Marilyn...

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Exhibitions 2

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Europe and the Orient: 800-1900 (Martin-Gropius-Bau, West Berlin, till 27 August) Cross- James McGeachie W est Berlin at its best is the conversa- tional capital of world...

Wimbledon

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Six o'clock shadow Ferdinand Mount There is something interestingly shock- ing about tennis players deciding to Stand Up for Jesus. Bunny Austin, the last Englishman to reach...

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Cinema

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Licence to Kill (`15', Odeons Leicester Square and Marble Arch) Minimalist Bond Hilary Mantel he first question is: does he need a licence? A little way into the new James...

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Home life

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Stale news Alice Thomas Ellis T he papers came late one day, so as I was already entirely au fait with the corn- flakes packet I read yesterday's. 'What is the news?' asked...

Television

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Not a bad old cove Wendy Cope N ursery rhymes are useful for every- body all through their lives,' said Iona Opie on last week's edition of The Child's Eye (Channel 4, 8 p.m.,...

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SOME good feast days back again. As I write it

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is Midsummer Day, birthday of poor St John the Baptist; on 29 June it is SS Peter and Paul, a suitable day for eating the very delicious fish John Dory, other- wise known as St...

Take is unwell, and Jeffery Bernard is abroad. High life

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and Low life columns should resume next week.

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CHESS

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Tolya toppled Raymond Keene T he Rotterdam World Cup appeared to be running a fairly predictable course. Anatoly Karpov, the former world cham- pion, was racing away with...

COMPETITION

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Teasing ten Jaspistos I n Competition No. 1580 you were in- vited to incorporate, plausibly, ten given words into a piece of prose, in any order. This sort of competition, a...

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No 1583: Overheard in the Tube

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It was on the Bakerloo line yesterday, and it was unwitting poetry: Is there a single town or city with a monument to a commit- tee?' Using this as your first two lines, please...

Solution to 912: Spare parts

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L I T PROUT LI ITUR S.T I V A V ALIP LIR 11 1 FID E T S OLILIHriCir I NI H K_AL, O Ej h o A 0,SIE:RIVP ID Unclued lights (sources of spare parts): 6 (11/20); 8 (17/27); 14...

CROSSWORD 915: Word got around by Mass

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A 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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