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Experience Near Porlock

A cry, a crash, and a vengeful shout From the street below; and I have written: The mountains had to start somewhere, so why not Immediately rising out of flat fields Where the......

Candid Not Only To Camera

Lindsay Anderson ME: STORIES OF MY LIFE by Katharine Hepburn Viking•, £16.99, pp. 418 I f you were asked to describe in a single word the unique quality of Katharine Hep- burn,......

Chronicles Of An Imp, Not The Devil

Philip Glazebrook OF LOVE AND ASTHMA by Ferdinand Mount Heinemann, £13.99, pp. 320 T his successful and amusing novel recounts from the point of view of its sardonic narrator......