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PORTRAIT OF THE WEEK
The Spectator`Jump!' S ylvia Heal won the Mid Staffordshire by-election for the Labour Party by a majority of 9,499, a swing of 21 per cent from the Tory party. It was thus registered as...
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DIARY ANTHONY HOWARD
The SpectatorT he Calcutt Committee on the law and the media has apparently got its report almost ready. Given that it was appointed only last summer, it has worked with commendable speed....
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PUTTING THE LIMITED BACK IN BRITAIN
The SpectatorNoel Malcolm investigates the growing corporatist opposition to Mrs Thatcher, and finds that it makes for strange bedfellows THE SHREWDEST comment on the Mid Staffordshire...
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BREAKING POINT ON THE BALTIC
The SpectatorStephen Handelman reports on the antagonism between Moscow and Vilnius Moscow OLD habits, it seems, die hard. Anyone visiting the Soviet Union for the first time this week...
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DOUBLE DEATH
The SpectatorJames Bowman on the political delights of capital punishment Popular men, They must create strange monsters, and then quell them, To make their arts seem something....
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SCENES FROM SCIENCE
The SpectatorAnyone can be wrong A SUPERNOVA is a star that tempor- arily brightens exceedingly — on occa- sion as a preliminary to exploding. The region at its centre is characterised by...
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CONSUMING PASSION
The SpectatorIan Buruma on the Japanese taste for erotic cannibalism THE film I'm about to describe is entitled Love Ritual. It was made in Paris by an Italian director called Aldo Lado....
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LEANER, MEANER FORCES
The SpectatorRobert Fox argues for a need to anticipate events in Europe and reshape defence policies `WHAT'LL the boys do down on the farm after they've seen Paree,' was the refrain for...
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One hundred years ago
The SpectatorSIR John Lubbock succeeded on Tues- day in inducing the London County Council to pause in carrying out one of the most unwise of their projects, that of excavating a tunnel...
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HAS HER LUCK RUN OUT?
The SpectatorJock Bruce-Gardyne surveys Mrs Thatcher's challengers NAPOLEON identified luck as the quality he asked for above all others of his generals, and Mrs Thatcher's first 11 years...
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PAEDOPHILES IN DISGUISE
The SpectatorSandra Barwick on fake social workers who get to examine children FASHIONS in dress and music have long been analysed for deeper lessons they are thought to hold about the...
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SHOULD WE TRY NAZIS?
The SpectatorThe media: Paul Johnson wants more debate on the legal issues THE Budget and the Mid Staffs by- election meant that the War Crimes Bill passed its second reading, by 273 to 60...
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LETTERS Share and share alike
The SpectatorSir: I am afraid that neither your editorial (17 March) nor the letters (24 March) will help to resolve the political disaster of the community charge. Those of us who oppose...
Heavy Welsh children
The SpectatorSir: How right Martyn Harris is about the `solemn idiocies of bilingual policy' in Wales (Diary, 10 March). I once saw a contractors' roadside notice near Hawarden (a part of...
Artistic immorality
The SpectatorSir: Steven Berkoff's nonsense (Letters, 17 March) is perhaps self-evidently so. Any artist is fundamentally a craftsman; his craft may be writing, poetry, painting, music or...
Sir: Both Mr Moszynski and Mrs Sweet- man are largely
The Spectatorin the same difficulty of comprehension of what the community charge is all about (Letters, 24 March). The former states that 'it is unfair'. As we all share free access to the...
Free to be homeless
The SpectatorSir: I am writing following the article by Harry Phibbs, 'Cardboard village' (10 March). Whilst agreeing wholeheartedly with Phibbs' desire for factual and empiric- al data...
Can't Cope
The SpectatorSir: Am I alone in finding Wendy Cope's repeated references to her inability to operate her television set and its associated video recorder tiresome in the extreme? Surely...
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Making a meal
The SpectatorSir: We welcomed the article on 3 Febru- ary by Nigella Lawson. A further visit may prove a more reliable guide for your readers. We were caught on the cusp, as on the day...
Lithuanian independence
The SpectatorSir: The policy of the United States to- wards the Republic of Lithuania suggests inconsistency in US foreign policy. The State Department may be correct in claim- ing that the...
Literally ungrammatical
The SpectatorSir: What is happening to our 'sweet English tongue' when the literary editor of a national newspaper, Graham Lord, (Let- ters, 24 February) can write . the judges — who...
Exposure
The SpectatorSir: In his review of Titmuss Regained (10 March) Colin Welch quotes Bacon to the effect that 'the higher a man climbs, the better the world's view of his arse'. For years I...
GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS
The SpectatorThis is the fifth in our Lent Series on English spiritual writers. THE few who regularly read poetry now may well find that it fills a kind of religious craving in their lives....
A DICTIONARY OF CANT
The SpectatorSELF-FINANCING. New bright ideas such as compulsory dog registration are being advertised as 'self-financing' schemes. What it means is that the schemes will have a power to...
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FINANCIAL SPECIAL
The SpectatorA meteoric fall for the stars Barry Riley D own they go, one after another, the domino line of the business superstars of • Thatcher's Britain. They were the Good Time guys...
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FINANCIAL SPECIAL
The SpectatorShare tippers and financial writing Stephen Fay O ne legendary press baron would make two telephone calls as soon as he arrived in the office — the first to his City editor...
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Staring markets down
The SpectatorMR GLADSTONE and his Cabinet gazed beadily down from the walls of the Palace of Westminster, as the Governor of the Bank of England turned his own beady gaze on the post-Budget...
Another good year
The SpectatorAT Lloyds Bank, when they lose £715 million, they like to look on the bright side. Brian Pitman, Lloyds' ebullient chief ex- ecutive, says in the report and accounts that it was...
Relationship of trust
The SpectatorODD and sad were the goings on at Framlington, the unit trust managers — so City and Suburban was saying two years ago, when Throgmorton Trust was trying to take them over....
CITY AND SUBURBAN
The SpectatorBringing a touch of class to the supply of M&S's knickers CHRISTOPHER FILDES splendid dinner at Grosvenor House this week launched Britain's newest major company, Courtaulds...
Out to lunch
The SpectatorLUNCH has an almost mystical import- ance in the City, and the state of the lunch - book is a leading indicator. It is therefore baddish news for Mrs Thatcher's Government that...
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BOOKS
The SpectatorDoes his end justify his genes? Colin Welch REBEL WITH A CAUSE: THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF HANS EYSENCK W.H. Allen, £14.95, pp. 310 rofessor Hans Eysenck's first chapter heading is...
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Quadruplication from the quad
The SpectatorPhilip Glazebrook WHERE I FELL TO EARTH: A LIFE IN FOUR PLACES by Peter Conrad Chatto, f16, pp. 252 his restless, dazzling book describes the relationship of Mr Conrad, a...
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Distance fails to lend enchantment
The SpectatorGabriele Annan THE FOLKS THAT LIVE ON THE HILL by Kingsley Amis Hutchinson, £12.95, pp.246 T his is Kingsley Amis's'19th novel. The format is soap opera: eight to ten members...
The Bereavement of Mr Jones
The SpectatorMr Jones was an expert In the art of origami. He would thumb through volumes Of his clean kitchen paper Before wrapping chips As though changing a nappy. He made paper hats To...
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Apparatchik turned democrat
The SpectatorRobert Oakeshott AGAINST THE GRAIN: AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY by Boris Yeltsin translated by Michael Glenny Cape, f12.95, pp. 215 A number of Oxford Colleges, among them Brasenose,...
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A shrewd idea a lot of hype but who will
The Spectatorwant to read it? Anne Chisholm THE PRINCE by Celia Brayfield Chatto & Windus, £12.95, pp.586 11) ear Dotti, Thank you for your letter of 29 Jan to the literary editor,...
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Christie's is risen again
The SpectatorEvelyn Joll INSIDE CHRISTIE'S by John Herbert Hodder & Stoughton, £20, pp. 407 I n The Great Gatsby, Meyer Wolfsheim, the man who 'fixed the 1919 World Series', says to the...
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I parked my car on a yellow line. Policemen told
The Spectatorme to move it away. (They say the right to complain is mine.) — I was sorry, we argued, they swore. I was fine Till they grabbed my neck, hit me and punched me that day I parked...
An Austrian artist awfully annoyed
The SpectatorJohn Henshall CONCRETE by Thomas Bernhard Quartet Encounter, £5.95, pp. 168 S ome years ago, as the train pulled out of Paddington, you passed a huge graffito by the tracks....
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ARTS
The SpectatorPhotography Big shots Giles Auty In Our Time: the World as Seen by Magnum Photographers (Hayward Gallery, till 6 May) A t one time many believed that the important advance...
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Theatre
The SpectatorAn Evening with Peter Ustinov (Theatre Royal, Haymarket) Someone Like You (Strand) Favourable impressions Christopher Edwards P eter Ustinov, whose 'big' personality is so...
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Cinema
The SpectatorCelia (15, selected cinemas) The violence of children Hilary Mantel A nn Turner's remarkable first film is set in Melbourne in 1957 and its main character is a little girl of...
Opera
The SpectatorLes Troyens (Opera de la Bastille, Paris) 1875 and all that Frank Johnson T he opening of a big new opera house in a capital city must offer some sort of guide to any age's...
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Nj „Tv - 12
The Spectator.am...a A monthly selection of forthcoming events recommended by The Spectator's regular critics DANCE Royal Ballet, Covent Garden (240 1066). On 26 April Kirov stars Altynai...
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Television
The SpectatorShort shrift Wendy Cope N ot a Penny More, Not a Penny Less. It's a long title, isn't it? When you consider that this was Jeffrey Archer's first book, it's quite surprising...
Sale-rooms
The SpectatorThe Russians are coming Peter Watson I n the coming week we shan't be able to move for Russian art. There is more of it coming under the hammer than there were Tory traitors...
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High life
The SpectatorCelebrities • squared Taki 0 New York h dear. Just as I sat down to write yet again about the ghastliness of Hollywood — this is Oscar week and every other subject is taboo...
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Low life
The SpectatorSmall print Jeffrey Bernard T en days ago I thought I was going to be a job for an ambulance but yesterday I managed to get up and cross my threshold for the first time since...
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New life
The SpectatorEars, idle ears Zenga Longmore W henever we hear Boko's voice over the intercom, Olumba and I frantically tidy up. There are ten flights of stairs to climb between the...
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The Spectator...111111111111111EIM, The Bell Inn, Aston Clinton I AM always suspicious of country house restaurants. You know the sorts of places: dining rooms filled with dried flower...
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SPECTATOR WINE CLUB
The SpectatorWine drinkers' wine and slurpers' tipples Auberon Waugh I had hoped to keep the price of the sample case (7) of this nice, cheap offer at under £5 the bottle, despite the fact...
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CHESS
The SpectatorDutch courage Raymond Keene J an Timman put up a brave fight against Anatoly Karpov in the final of the qual- ifying series to decide who will meet Kasparov for the world...
COMPETITION
The SpectatorVAS RF L GV 12 YEAR OLD SCOTCH WHISKY 12 YEAR OLD SCOTCH WHISKY Vice versa Jaspistos I n Competition No. 1618 you were asked for an end - of-term report, by a teenage pupil,...
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No. 1621: Hard question, soft reply
The SpectatorDo people still propose marriage by letter and receive written replies? Let us assume the age of gallantry is not yet dead. Two `modern' letters, please (maximum 150 words), the...
CROSSWORD 952: As simple by Doc
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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