21 JANUARY 1989, page 48

High Life

Who'd fancy Nancy? Taki ike Wallace is an acne-ravaged 71- year-old mediacrat with dyed black hair who is an expert at kicking people who are on their way down. Wallace works......

Low Life

That strain again Jeffrey Bernard S o much music evokes so many places, times and people for me. It can be all sorts of music. My last wife was the Sibelius Symphony No 1, and......

Home Life

A clean sweep Alice Thomas Ellis The other day the old year intruded with its wall chart into this one as Janet grap- pled with matters of tax, digging out ragged bills and......