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Cinema

The Sex Mission (`15', Gate Notting Hill) Future imperfect Peter Ackroyd T his film enters that area most agree- able to the fantasist, the 'future' — the word has to be put......

Opera

L'Etoile and Pefleas et Melisande (Lyons Opera at the Edinburgh Festival) Alive and well Rodney Milnes A s Peter Phillips sagely remarked last week, the first operatic offering......