12 AUGUST 1995, page 40

Half Life

What are friends for? Carole Morin S wans are supposed to be monogamous but the bad-tempered ones I feed in Regent's Park, instead of swimming nicely together, are always......

High Life

Halcyon days Taki Gstaad T hirty-five years ago, spending the sum- mer in Gstaad was like committing social seppuku. (This is the samurai suicide of slashing one's stomach.)......

Low Life

A bunch of silly girls Jeffrey Bernard I seem to have a gift for inspiring women to utter some of the worst lines that have never been written. I suppose the most well-known......