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Art-coping

John McEwen The Legacy of Mark Rothko Lee Seldes (Secker £7.90) Almost rivalling Watergate as the American scandal of the 1970s is the Rothko case. Lee Seldes, the only......

Books Waisted

THE ALLAH HACKBURIES', J.M. Barrie; 'A Designer's Trade' Gordon Russell. Alan Hollingsworth, 3 Llanvair Close, South Ascot, Berks. CAROLINE by Oliver Hill and John Comforth,......

Last Things

Paul Ableman Final Payments Mary Gordon (Hamish Hamilton £4.95) 'I thought how easy it would be to kill a woman like that. Youcould lure hcr with coffee and doughnuts and then......