23 DECEMBER 1989, page 100

No. 1608: Cliché Time

You know the form of cliché which goes `The film's bedroom scenes make the orgies of Tiberius look like a vicarage tea-party', or 'George Lodwick on the wing, whose dreadlocks......

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Competition

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Spectator Christmas Quiz

Goodbye . . . hello This year: 1 Whose dog, Chipper, said goodbye to this world after losing its life in a fight with its mistress's mother's dog, Ranger? 2 Who said hello to......