9 JANUARY 1993

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ANOTHER VOICE A terminal case of the isochrones CHARLES MOORE h1 e second map shows the distribution of each hospital's "exclusive" population within its ten minute isochrone...

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Duty-free

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LE TTERS Duty-free Sir: Charles Moore (Another voice, 19/26 December) suggests the Princess of Wales dries her tears and stays married. I agree it is impertinent to speculate...

On the job

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On the job Sir: Had Mr Michael Barber (Letters, 2 January), who claims 'always' to read the reviews I from time to time contribute to The Spectator, only perused them a little...

[Sir: William Oddie ('No sects please, we're...]

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Sir: William Oddie ('No sects please, we're I British', 19/26 December) makes much of his belief that the Church Times gave 'only a single glancing reference' to Bishop...

Making a meal of it

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Making a meal of it Sir: It is distressing to see a quality writer in a quality journal perpetuating the mistaken story that General de Gaulle used the expression...

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Bread and Marje

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Bread and Marje Mary Killen MARJE THE GUILT AND THE GINGERBREAD by Angela Patmore Little, Brown, £15.99, pp.342 M arjorie Proops, famed advice columnist at the Daily Mirror,...

To see and be scene

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To see and be scene Philip Glazebrook THE WAY OF THE WORLD by Nicolas Bouvier Polygon, £8.95 A though I read this memorable book as slowly as seemed consistent with the...

Haiku for a sleeping wife

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Haiku for a sleeping wife Ah, your hair which caught my breath is grey; my strength just this whisper at dawn. Generations locked us together; when loving was lissom; flesh...

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The trigger-happy Habsburg

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The trigger-happy Habsburg Philip Mansel FRANZ JOSEPH by Jean-Paul Bled translated by Teresa Bridgeman Blackwell, £45, pp288 Seduced by the halo of 'Vienna in 1900', we forget...

Talking to Blake

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Talking to Blake I saw a lit candle in sunlight held by the ghost of William Blake. He walked by the polluted river, ill-at-ease, beneath Lambeth's dusty poplar trees Then high...

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Theatre

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Theatre Barnum (Dominion) The Prisoner of Zenda (Greenwich) A Penny for a Song (Orange Tree, Richmond) Foot sore Sheridan Morley Question: How many drama critics does it...

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Cinema

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Cinema Reservoir Dogs ('18', selected cinemas) A Winter's Tale ('12', Chelsea Cinema, Renoir) Bloody, funny Vanessa Letts Resernoir Dogs is an extremely sharp film. Its...

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High life

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High life Hollywood, Colorado Taki New York I n a rational world, the Colorado boycott by gays, lesbians and their sympathisers would have ski-lovers the world over...

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Low life

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Low life A stick in time Jeffrey Bernard The year was only three days old when I slipped on a frosty pavement by the market and fell on to the hip I broke. Perhaps the...

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SPECTATOR SPORT

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SPECTATOR SPORT Nothing ventured ... Frank Keating CYRIL Walters died at 87, just before a Couple of important Test cricket milestones. Not that he would have cared tupPence...