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The Cad With The Toothbrush Technique

Harriet Waugh SECRET SMILE by Nicci French Michael Joseph, £16.99, pp. 320, ISBN 0718145194 0 f Nicci French's six novels three deal with the subjugation of women by an aberrant......

Truly Heroic Couplets

Peter Porter GEORGE CRABBE: AN ENGLISH LIFE, 1754-1832 by Neill Powell Pimlico, .i12.50, pp. 373, ISBN 0712684990 A mid the enmities of contemporary letters, it's salutary to......

The Matador

In Goya's paintings even the cats Are Spaniards And at an exhibit How many of the visitors, If you take another look, Are Goya faces Framed by glasses and head-phones,......