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Total Control Takes Longer

John Bowen STANLEY KUBRICK by John Baxter HarperCollins, £20, pp. 399 T he set of a Kubrick movie does not seem to have been a happy place. No jokes, not even on Dr Strangelove.......

A Delightful Lumber-room

Caroline Moore • ECHOES OF WAR by William Riviere Sceptre, £16.99, pp. 634 E choes of War is a haunting but unfor- givably self-indulgent novel — though my intermittent......