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The Cure
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(After Yannis Ritsos)
Although the fever had left him months before, he kept to his bed: the invalid, his room a swelter of sweat and booze and that meaty smell from the hide draped on the floor.
The creature had been skinned alive, he said;
the underside of the pelt still carried the ...
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Letter: Votes count.(Letters)
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What For?
Poetry
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Maureen Messent: This cop's a criminal piece of mis-casting
Birmingham Mail
; WAS I alone in feeling my hackles rise during the first few minutes of ITV's Trial and Retribution? The script was par for the course if you could stomach another two-part murder and cops saga. But my quarrel isn't with the writer Lynda La Plante. It's actor David Hayman (Chief Supt Michael Walker)
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 "The Mirror (London, England)")
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A MAN'S BEST FIEND.(Features)
The Mirror (London, England)
; Wilderness (Monday, ITV, 9pm) Learning to live with your partner's annoying little habits is part and parcel of a relationship. It's harder to cope if, like Alice White in three-part chiller Wilderness, she turns into a wolf. Whenever she feels her hackles rise, Alice (Amanda Ooms) locks herself in
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Late Into the Night
The Virginia Quarterly Review
; Late Into the Night, by Yannis Ritsos. Volume 21 in the Field Translation Series, this handsome book contains a judicious selection of Ritsos' last poems. Written between 1987 and 1989, the work here dates from a time when the poet was suffering from broken health and broken faith. Ritsos, who had
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 "Birmingham Mail (England)")
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Maureen Messent: This cop's a criminal piece of mis-casting.(Features)
Birmingham Mail (England)
; Byline: Maureen Messent WAS I alone in feeling my hackles rise during the first few minutes of ITV's Trial and Retribution? The script was par for the course if you could stomach another two-part murder and cops saga. But my quarrel isn't with the writer Lynda La Plante. It's actor David Hayman
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Redknapp quick on the draw to make his point
The Sunday Telegraph London
; Brighton 1 Portsmouth 1 ALTHOUGH PORTSMOUTH stayed comfortably clear at the top after salvaging a point at the Withdean Stadium, this was their sixth draw in eight games - an irritating statistic guaranteed to make manager Harry Redknapp's hackles rise. Asked if it was time the Division One leaders
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Mobile pupils told to hang up
The Press
; Listening to Mozart's Symphony No. 40 used to be a moving musical experience. Used to be, because what Waldo de los Rios failed to achieve with his disco version in the 1970s, today's cellular phone makers have now managed -- to reduce the sublime to the ridiculous. You need to be only a few
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LETTER:Batting for Britten
The Independent - London
; From Mr Stephen Newbould Sir: I feel moved, almost against my better judgement, to respond to Frederick Stocken's outburst against "modern music" ("Dear Bill Oddie", 4 January) in which he singles out with particular venom Britten and Birtwistle as bad and unpopular composers. What is it about Mr
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LETTER: Language problem.(Comment)(Letter to the Editor)
The Independent (London, England)
; Byline: SARIAN GRERELLE Sir: Being of mixed Welsh/English parentage, I have always found it a chore to try to educate certain unsophisticated English types that Welsh people speak their own language all the time, not just when an English person appears. Why is it, that when the English hear
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