4 APRIL 1987, page 33

America's Best Film Critic

Mark Amory TAKING IT ALL IN by Pauline Kael Marion Boyars, £18.95 e only reads the reviews', people often say accusingly, 'not the books them- selves.' My position precisely and......

Books

Welshing on the Welsh Alan Watkins NYE BEVAN AND THE MIRAGE OF BRITISH SOCIALISM by John Campbell Weidenfeld & Nicolson, £15.95 B evan was called Nye by his acolytes in England......

For Melody

Such sweetness of sound, such Melody just within Hearing. I try to catch The harmony, begin A statement of life and death, A concord in troubled years, The trumpet demands......

Bouquet

He bought her a bunch of dried flowers at the Fontaine of Vaucluse where Petrarch lived. The gesture was so unusual she felt obliged to reciprocate with ropes of shiny liquorice......