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Men, Women And The Whole Damn Thing

Anita Brookner THE GROWN-UPS by Victoria Glendinning Hutchinson, £11.95, pp.252 1 - 1 . eartlessly, effortlessly amusing, and with a touch of Weldonian snappiness, The Grown-Ups......

Practising Safe Language

Sara Maitland AIDS AND ITS METAPHORS by Susan Sontag Allen Lane/Penguin, £9.95, pp.95 C ompared to heart attacks, cancer, even road deaths, few people have died of Aids. Yet we......

Vox Populi . . .

Democracy's Finest Hour Suppose, in AD 33, The People then had chosen well; That 'Give us Jesus!' they had cried And blown the Christian myth to hell! But, No! Barabbas was......