14 DECEMBER 1996, page 84

Cliché Corner

Leslie Geddes-Brown on design ideas done to death over the decades I n the Forties, every suburban semi was supposed to have a flight of three pottery ducks on its sitting-room......

Soap-opera Culture

Giannandrea Poesio on what is wrong with some of today's narrative ballets D uring the second half of the 18th century, ballet masters and dance theorists such as Franz......