20 SEPTEMBER 1997, page 20

How Fast A Life?

Dodi Fayed's defenders say he disliked speed. say the opposite LAST Thursday's Times carried a long piece by Barbara Broccoli, the daughter of the James Bond film-maker, Cubby......

Mind Your Language

`THEY drove him around in a whiskum snivel,' Lord David Cecil recorded of Cowper. Mr Tom Hartman the publish- er implored me to help in elucidating that compound noun. I was no......