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Cinema

Independence Day (12, selected cinemas) My Beautiful Laundrette (15, selected cinemas) One giant leap for machines Mark Steyn B ob Dole, in the midst of his auto-sub- versive......

I Am No Protectionist

Michael Tanner says he never intended to suppress the issue of Wagner's anti-Semitism B arry Millington's concluding question 'Is this the way they teach at Cambridge these......

Arts

A very French affair Harry Eyres finds this year's Avignon Theatre Festival stylish, serious and surprising K afka has a particularly resonant para- ble about leopards breaking......