27 FEBRUARY 1982, page 30

High Life

Big Bad Apple Taki New York T ike the song said long ago, I'll take Manhattan. Well, only that small part of Manhattan that is commonly referred to by the chic observers of such......

Television

Plugging away Richard Ingrams w ith every week that passes the BBC's output gets more and more trashy. One leafs through the Radio Times with in- creasing desperation looking......

Low Life

Shaken Jeffrey Bernard I don't have the most recent issue of the Sunday Times with me but if tnY memory serves me, which it doesn't often , I fancy that Sir Harold Acton was......