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Spectator Sport

Defying death Simon Barnes MARCEL Proust's last words were, 'I feel like a cold beer,' words filled with the brac- ing banality of death. But it is the last words of another......

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Q. I am an avid drama student and I am taking the subject as a GCSE next year. However, my drama teacher is, to say the least, untalented in the arts of both acting and teaching......