24 OCTOBER 1992, page 54

High Life

Under the table Taki I 've had the kind of week that would have exhausted Sisyphus. I tried to prepare for it by steaming to Mykonos for some R&R, but as is usually the case in......

Cinema

1492: Conquest of Paradise ('15', selected cinemas) Scenery and sentiment Vanessa Letts L du Garde Peach, in the 23 small pages that make up the 1961 Ladybird Christopher......

Television

House party Martyn Harris W orld in Action this week (ITV, Mon- day, 8.30 p.m.) took a trip to dacha-land in the former Soviet Union to see how the system of grace-and-favour......