4 MAY 1985, page 40

High Life

Soapbox Taki New York T was limping up Park Avenue after some lmayhem at the karate dojo when I noticed a good-looking blonde girl staring at me in that particularly shifty-eyed......

Low Life

Traveller's tale Jeffrey Bernard S eville was very much all right. Cordoba with its wonderful mosque was frac- tionally marred by the presence of a party of American lesbians in......

Home Life

Tomfoolery Alice Thomas Ellis E very decade or so I make up my mind that now I've cracked it, that I have understood the secret of the universe, the meaning of life and the......