3 DECEMBER 1994, page 63

High Life

Blown to bits Taki My spies tell me that Big Al is not a bad shot, although recently he did shoot the peacock that was leading out the pheas- ants, which would, in a firing......

Television

Dreaming of the past Nigella Lawson I s there a word for getting nostalgic about a particular and long-gone nostalgia? As i n, for instance 'You know, it's never been the same......

Cinema

Drowned in plotlines Mark Steyn M iracle on 34th Street is the one which isn't It's A Wonderful Life — though time, television and the haze of yuletide cheer have suffused both......