2 NOVEMBER 1985, page 38

Mu Sic

Playing safe Peter Phillips I s it my imagination, or are contributors to the Spectator becoming self-conscious? There seems to have been a rash of self- and cross-quotations......

Arts

W hy private individuals buy paintings is almost as fascinating as why artists paint them. Yet while personal taste remains a complex 'Vex matter, clear-cut national tenden-......

Cinema

Prizzi's Honour (`15', Odeon Haymarket) The Italian connections Peter Ackroyd J ack Nicholson is unmistakable: the eyes so peculiar that on occasions he resembles a blind man,......