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Cinema

True blues PENELOPE HOUSTON Don't Look Back (icA, Nash House) The Great Train Robbery (Berkeley, V') Therese and Isabelle (Continentale and Cinecenta, 'X') Don't Look Back, the......

Theatre

Vulgar is as vulgar does HILARY SPURLING The Other House (Mermaid) Much Ado About Nothing (Aldwych) Henry James's painful relations with the stage seem to have ended, at any......

Music

Plain clothes Don MICHAEL NYMAN The Proms this year seem more than ever to have been planned as a kind of metro- politan vacation course in practical, but fairly conventional,......