19 FEBRUARY 1983, page 9

Rites Of A Beirut Spring

Alan Ross I n the early Sixties I spent a weekend in Beirut on my way to India. 1 remembered it as a city of solid Ottoman buildings, palm trees spraying shadows over......

Living At The Chelsea

Peter Ackroyd New York The fobby resembles some vast junk- ./ shop; the paintings are coated in a layer of dust, and portable sculptures have been placed in odd corners and then......