2 SEPTEMBER 1989

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PORTRAIT OF THE WEEK

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Family at war, 1989 T welve years into its travels through the outer reaches of the solar system the American spacecraft Voyager 2 sent back spectacular photographs from Neptune...

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SPECTAT THE OR

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The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LL Telephone 01-405 1706; Telex 27124; Fax 242 0603 GERMANY ON THE MOVE ifty years ago this week Britain in- volved herself in...

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BAD

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England's cricket team is even worse than in 1921 IT REQUIRES a long memory or a full set of Wisden to find a parallel to this sum- mer's rout of England's cricketers. There...

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many? — are concerned with the elusive business of writing

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poetry. She is no doubt right when she says spirit Lucky for you that the new words arrive out of what Really does seem a perfect cloud-absent sky. But the luck is not for...

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A lesson from America

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Nicholas Lezard If the book has a weakness it is perhaps that London is viewed so much in its own light. The civilising influences of its im- mense trade, and of the foreigners...

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Then we went back to the bar and there was

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singing in the form of individual recitatives. People took it in turns to stand on a bar stool and sing a song. It was accompanied by a lot of shouting and eventually the...

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AUTUMN/ WINTER 1989

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OPERA STEP INT0.6 GAL wORLD MATIC HIS AUTUMN!

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i reisc ha tz Sung in English Sung in Italian The Sung in English OXFORD Apollo Theatre BRISTOL Hippodrome Donizetti's powerful and passionate masterpiece based on Sir...

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