Sir: In The Article About Hugh Grant, It Is Mentioned
that in the film world he cannot compete with beefcakes. What beefcakes , for goodness sake, are there in Hollywoo d these days? Woody Allen? Dustin Hoffman? Harrison Ford? Mark......
Jarring Gerund Sir: Reading Dot Wordsworth's Medita-...
is always a pleasure, but I do wonder if the first phrase of a column headed 'Mind your language' (15 February) should be quite so cavalier with a gerund. `My husband doesn't......
. . . With Oil Anoint
Sir: It has come to my knowledge, through Sunday morning misadventure, that if 3 drop of eucalyptus oil is placed on a Specta - tor page the print ink is immediately lique -......
Letters The Wrong Story
Sir: Sarah Gainham (Letters, 8 February) does not make it quite clear what she is working up to with her contention that some great truth about the first world war is being......
Civility Costs Nothing
Sir: How timely that The Rules of Civility should fall into the hands of Paul Johnso n (And another thing, 15 February). PerhaP s he should have read it more careful l .Y before......
Taken For Granted
Sir: Why is it that even The Spectator suf- fers from such inaccurate coverage as the piece on Hugh Grant (`The decline from Cary Grant to Hugh Grant', 15 February)? The idea......
A Question Of Taste
Sir: Thank goodness we don't all like the same things. I remember being quite shocked when your food critic, David Fingleton, wrote with enthusiasm about the food he had had on......
Poverty-stricken
Sir: Gandhi's personal third-class carriag e continued after Independence (AnotheT voice, 15 February). In fact it was said . 11 cost India a fortune to keep Gandhi ry poverty.......
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