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Pleasures Of The Fleeting Year

Nicholas Ridley THE SPECTATOR ANNUAL edited by Dominic Lawson HarperCollins, 177.50, pp. 262 M ost people are hooked on periodi- cals. They feel deprived, even out of touch, if......

Everlasting Watch, But Movieless

Gilbert Adair SCREENING HISTORY by Gore Vidal Deutsch, f12.99, pp. 97 T he very first, mock-solemn sentence of Screening History unfurls in front of the reader's eyes like a......