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Arts

Looking beyond the frills Jann Parry C ummon up the image of a ballet dancer L./ and what do you see? Very probably, what Degas saw: a girl in a long white skirt, adjusting a......

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James Hughes Onslow Music For Chameleons, Truman Capote (Sphere £1.50) 14 short stories, based mostly on im- probable characters Capote really has met — like the Martinique......

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Eric Christiansen is the author of The Northern Crusades and the translator of Saxo. He is a Fellow of New College Oxford, where he teaches mediaeval history. Jo Grimond has......