24 FEBRUARY 2001, page 63

The Making Of The Man

Simon Barnes SVEN-GORAN ERIKSSON has become the man of the thousand cutaways. We know scarcely anything more than his face, studious, perhaps loftily amused, when every week the......

Q. For Various Reasons I Attend A Lot Of Art-gallery

openings. Although champagne is plenteous at places like the Rebecca Hossack gallery in Windmill Street, the throng is often so dense that the glasses to drink it from run out.......

Q. A Friend Of Mine Recently Had A Youngish Man

to stay for the weekend. Quite unexpectedly the man died — of natural causes — while he was staying there. Without wishing to make light of this tragedy in any way, an......

Q. At A Recent Weekend Party I Was Introduced To

one of the other guests and had a short conversation with her before dinner. The next morning at breakfast she asked our hostess to introduce us, declaring that 'We haven't met......

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