14 NOVEMBER 1987, page 51

Low Life

Bwana in suburbia Jeffrey Bernard Nairobi his is very different to anything I have known before. I have never felt so abroad before. Moscow, Luxor and New Orleans might well......

High Life

A sticky business Taki Washington h erehere was a heatwave of sorts in the nation's capital last week, and matters got even stickier when the senior senator from Massachusetts......

Television

Blankety blank Wendy Cope I n one of the Time with Betjeman prog- rammes, broadcast a few years ago, Sir John was asked which poets he enjoyed reading. First he mentioned the......