24 JANUARY 1981, page 30

Hold-up

Richard Ingrams People keep going on about the 'ordeal' of the American hostages, now at last at an end. But what about the ordeal of television viewers bored into the ground......

Fancy Nancy

Taki Washington Well, it's goodbye Willie Nelson, Hello Frank Sinatra. And about time, too. Jimmy Carter, the small man of stature, vision, execution, and many other things, is......