26 SEPTEMBER 1987, page 52

High Life

Water sports Taki A Athens s everyone who has visited this hell-hole during the last 15 years or so knows, the `nefos' is the permanent cloud of noxious fumes that hangs over......

Opera

Eastern approaches Rodney MIInes O ne or two eyebrows have been raised at the English National Opera's staging Stephen Sondheim's Pacific Overtures and hoping to generate some......

Television

Ghoul appeal Wendy Cope A drunken man is being buried alive in a graveyard. This is a bit much, so I go and get another cup of coffee. By the time I come back it's the......