Book-banged
A definition of 'Bookbang' could be: how to take knocks for trying to encourage book sales. Most of the television and press people, liverish as first-night theatre critics,......
Ageless Aquarius
Aquarius, one of the few television series devoted to the arts in London to be planning to put out an entire programme from Paris in a week or two's time, has found a re- newed......
. The \ Spectator's' Notebook
By all accounts it would seem that Britain has already been more than usually prompt with aid to the refugees and cholera vic- tims of East Pakistan. At the moment it is the......
Equally Inscrutable
The curious thing about Richard Crossman's remark that the Duke of Edinburgh's tele- vision interview in the States on the subject of the Royal finances was 'vulgar, unjust and......
Ulster Deaths
Among the distressing statistics which Northern Ireland has produced in the last three years of troubles is that it has the high- est unsolved murder rate of any Western......
Oriental Wisdom
One illiterate couple at the entrance viewed the Bookbang banners with suspicion. 'I don't know what it is,' said the girl, 'but it must be pornographic.' Lord Longford, who was......
Composer Discomposed
If Humphrey Burton is now on good terms with the ITA, he'must be less well regarded by a German film production company called Intertel, for whom he was recently making a film......
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