Two quite posh women one married one recently divorced set up their own private detective agency with the help of a predatory scuzzbag
Two quite posh women, one married, one recently divorced, set up their own private detective agency with the help of a predatory scuzzbag. Before they have too much time to think, the Mummery method of teaching is explained to them. The cheapest is a six-week-wait budget plan, which has a pounds 150 excess on every claim. In a notable understatement Andrew Buxton, the bank’s chairman, admitted yesterday that Barclays’ woes were partly the result of ’some poor lending’.
Mrs Lovett is supposed to offer light relief; but as Julia McKenzie plays her (with marvellous control of the comic rhythms), it is her capacity for humdrum compromise and blinkered respectability, fussing round her parlour with green smoke issuing from her chimney, that chills the blood.Hers is by far the best voice in the company (seconded by Nick Holder as a bel canto Pirelli). Claudia (Anjelica Huston, her debut) and Heron (Assaf Dayan, son of then Israeli defence minister, Moshe Dayan) are a nobleman’s daughter and a wide-eyed student dragged to their fate, not by crossed stars or parental interference, but by bloody social upheaval – the sort the Sixties generated Nothing can save them. The prospect of an Oscar nomination for The Piano can only make matters worse. It reckons that one cubic metre of wood, costing pounds 18, is enough for a family of five for the winter.10 Marie Stopes International started its Bosnian programme in May, creating four field trauma centres for Croat and Muslim refugees in Bosnia and Croatia. With very few exceptions, for cases of special urgency, such meetings and their agendas must be notified to the press and public, and be held in public. Several of the detainees interviewed claimed to have witnessed the castration of men while looking from different vantage points (a bathroom keyhole, from a window and from inside a warehouse).One victim mentioned by all of them is Jasmin Hrnic.
Sir: The Law Lords’ decision on rights for part-time workers has been enthusiastically welcomed by those groups concerned with low pay and equal opportunities (‘Law biased against part-time workers, Lords rules’, 4 March). THE Home Secretary, Michael Howard, yesterday signalled the death of one of the enduring symbols of the British bobby – the truncheon. It is a ‘Zen mind- portal in Eastern religio-philosophy,’ says Rufus J Sanders, contemplatively.The ‘most bizarre thing’ David Nicholls can think of for an ear-lobe is ‘to make a hole in it and dangle a piece of metal from the hole.’ Less bizarrely, he says, you can sever the ear-lobe, attach a handle, and use it as a very gentle pestle for grinding fluff in the navel.The question of ear-lobe evolution has been exercising some of our finest minds. The Marxist art critic John Berger likened Bratby’s obsessive vision to that of the prisoner in the condemned cell, seeing life for the last time. The Suddeutsche Zeitung yesterday described that demand as ‘macabre’, and argued that Ms Wolf’s own work contradicted the ‘deplorable decisions’ which she had taken years earlier.
As is often the case, the further down-market you go, the more fun it is.Saturday night. Last season Lancashire were denuded of Orrell players before the final against Cornwall, which they also won 9-6, when a league game against Harlequins was rescheduled. Mary (superb Sara Kestelman) is an American whose 15-year-old granddaughter has gone missing taking photographs in the crowd. Their style is that of their generation rather than their orientation, which all goes to show that sexual bent is in the eye of the beholder.De Laria wonders why the banker wants to know. But it is also where you find Dodger’s Diner, Drood’s Antiques, Peggoty’s Parlour, Estelle’s florists and an Indian takeaway called A Taste of Two Cities.
It is time for the West to acknowledge that the Arabs are a different people, that they long for their own laws and way of life and that they need to enjoy freedom and democracy, for without them there is no escape from this hardship that engulfs their communities.Yours faithfully,SALAH EZZCowley, Oxford15 October. Most important, it realistically addresses an overwhelming desire in both countries for peace. ‘My passport’s green,’ said a line that stuck in my mind.So since then we have had no excuse for making that mistake. I walked up terraced streets in the rain, past the Rose and Crown (Vaux), the Old Fleece (John Smith’s) and the British Protection (free house). In addition, they argued that the manner of the deaths suggested they had been caused by the same person.The evidence was circumstantial.
