The Sunday Telegraph London back issues from August 1999:
Review Features: In a dark country The story of Iris Murdoch's struggle with Alzheimer's disease has been movingly told by her husband, John Bayley. Now, with the publication of his book chronicling her final months, he talks to Lucy Cavendish about life after Iris, and how his intimate revelations `would have been what she wanted'. Overleaf: an exclusive extract from the new book
Aug 01, 1999; ... THERE is a notice above the front door to John Bayley's house inOxford. "Please knock vigorously. The bell is very weak." I knockand knock for what seems like ages, and then, finally, the door opensto reveal a round, baggy man with a round, baggy face and a fewstrands of grey hair. "Been ...
Review Features: `I have lost my Muse. I can do nothing without her . . .'
Aug 01, 1999; ... I CAN hardly believe it's all over. At the end, it happened soquickly. Late last year, I wrote in my diary of how Iris and I werestill together, struggling along in the peculiar way that anAlzheimer's patient and carer do. Then between one day and the nextit became all but impossible to ...
Review Features: It's not always good to talk, even in company Time of My Life
Aug 01, 1999; ... SOLITARY confinement is by no means the most awful of punishments.I dare say that it is pretty grim if imposed on you for an indefinitetime, but when you choose it, as I did once, it can be very pleasant.I had marooned myself for a month on an uninhabited island in theHebrides. I took ...
Review Features: This is my last roll of the dice The most famous Englishwoman in New York has made a lot of enemies, many of whom would love to see her latest venture fail. Could her new Talk magazine be the downfall of the brilliant Tina Brown?
Aug 01, 1999; ... IT IS sometimes said that there are two Tina Browns: "good Tina"and "bad Tina". Good Tina is charming, hilarious, bubbly and verygood company. Bad Tina is clipped, humourless, cold and difficult.You never know which version you are going to get and, to make it allthe more fun, she ...
Review Features: `Each time I was threatened, I said my prayers' Me and My God Chris Moon, former mine-clearer, talks to Frances Welch
Aug 01, 1999; ... CHRIS MOON, a former soldier, was clearing mines in Cambodia whenhe was kidnapped by the Khmer Rouge. After his release he was sentto Mozambique, where he lost an arm and a leg in an explosion. Theseevents have served only to strengthen his faith. "They say there are no atheists on ...
Review Features: At the frontier of the fight for life Christina Lamb's son was born last month at 30 weeks. With babies surviving at ever younger ages, she asks whether we are doing enough to protect the rights of the unborn child
Aug 01, 1999; ... TO WATCH the people in blue gowns rush my newborn son away fromthe operating theatre to the intensive care unit, instead of placinghim in my arms, is the hardest thing that has ever happened to me.Perfect Day was playing on Magic FM as surgeons sewed me up, all thetime complaining about ...
Review Features: Even earwax has its place in the grand order of things In Sickness and in Health
Aug 01, 1999; ... AMONG my more regular patients is a distinguished barrister with aprosaic problem - an excessive production of earwax. The resultingdeafness creates certain difficulties, as can be imagined, when hehas to appear in court; so, four times a year he turns up to thesurgery where I have the ...
Style: Double take The twins in a new `Twelfth Night' look sharp enough for the catwalk. Jackie Modlinger discovers how women can look as good as men in tailored trouser suits
Aug 01, 1999; ... THIS SUMMER's languid, Brideshead-style production of TwelfthNight with the New Shakespeare Company makes a strong fashionstatement. Emily Hamilton and Ben Hicks, who play the twins Viola andSebastian, wear identical made-to-measure trouser suits by the tailorDenis Bruno, costing ...
The Arts: Those pioneers of the New Frontier Art
Aug 01, 1999; ... Full Moon IMAGINE meeting an Argonaut. Those privileged to have been at thelunchtime lecture by Michael Light, curator of Full Moon at theHayward Gallery (until September 19), an exhibition of Apollo Missionlunar photographs, know the answer; because also present was ...
The Arts: The secretive face of France Catherine Deneuve is as elusive as she is legendary. In a rare interview, she tells Sheila Johnston about her attraction for the unusual and how her sister's death blighted her life
Aug 01, 1999; ... THIS STARTS as the story of two sisters. Not twins, although theycould have been: a year apart in age, they bore an unmistakablephysical resemblance. But in temperament the Dorleac girls wereopposites, the elder, Franoise, vivid, exuberant and impulsive, theyounger, Catherine, secretive ...
The Arts: Hague goes hinter Radio
Aug 01, 1999; ... "ONLY those who have personality and emotions know what it meansto want to escape from these things," said T. S. Eliot at hissnidest. It's an observation that often comes to mind when listeningto the many programmes in which people are invited to express their"personality" through their ...
The Arts: Love triumphs among the oafs Opera
Aug 01, 1999; ... The Bartered Bride Lehnhoff has performed a remarkable conjuring-trick in hisbeautifully observed production: he has kept the humour and fun and yet projected the dark undercurrents COMEDY, as somebody said (probably Hofmannsthal), is a seriousbusiness ....
The Arts: The smouldering flesh of the dedicated self-abuser Television
Aug 01, 1999; ... WHEN Ronald Reagan was President of the United States he wasinvited to attend a demonstration of a new type of reinforced glassfor use in aircraft cockpits. There had been a number of cases ofplanes hitting birds and the glass shattering, with predictably direresults. And so the ...
The Arts: Just as groovy the second time Cinema
Aug 01, 1999; ... Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me Motel Cactus IF THERE has been a recurring motif to this summer, it's ofCommonwealth countries thrashing us at our own game. First it wasNew Zealand and cricket. Now we're faced with a Canadian who hascombined such quintessentially ...
The Arts: Something nasty in the woods It's the hottest ticket in the US, a cod documentary made on a shoestring by a couple of unknown directors. James Langton talks to the men behind The Blair Witch Project
Aug 01, 1999; ... ON A sidewalk-blistering afternoon in SoHo, several hundred youngNew Yorkers have braved the heat and humidity to pack a matineeperformance for a film that promises to deliver more chills than theair-conditioning. They are watching what appears to be a documentary, the final ...
The Arts: To put it baldly, it's a turkey in drag Dance
Aug 01, 1999; ... Royal Ballet mixed bill Ondine TUCKETT is at it again. William Tuckett, one of the great whitehopes of Royal Ballet choreography, has been let loose once more witha blank cheque, Henry James, Andrzej Panufnik and his pick of thecompany's dancers. The Turn of the ...
The Arts: Bring me more of this inspired silliness, slave Theatre
Aug 01, 1999; ... A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change Easy Virtue NOBODY has ever made great claims for A Funny Thing Happened onthe Way to the Forum, but you can make some pretty good ones. It'sgenuinely funny. It's authentically ...
The Arts: The master of suave Leslie Phillips may be forever associated with cravats and sports cars, but he left all that behind a long time ago. Now aged 75, he tells Veronica Lee why he is about to appear in the unlikely setting of the Edinburgh Fringe
Aug 01, 1999; ... AFTER 20 minutes I give up waiting for Leslie Phillips to finishmaking the coffee before the interview proper begins. Just in idlechitchat, he can cover fatherhood, the nature of celebrity and modernacting - and find time to describe his new play. Everything, infact, but make the coffee, ...
Books: An up and down rivalry John Campbell on a fresh approach to two intertwined Tory careers
Aug 01, 1999; ... Burying Caesar: Churchill, Chamberlain and the Battle for the ToryParty by Graham Stewart Weidenfeld & Nicolson, pounds 25, 533 pp YOUNG HISTORIANS have to find new ways to tell familiar stories,and a dual biography is a clever way to go about it. The titanicclash ...
Books: Murder most cosy Agatha Christie's popularity is a mystery Charles Spencer cannot fathom
Aug 01, 1999; ... The Life and Crimes of Agatha Christie: A Biographical Companion to the Works of Agatha Christie by Charles Osborne HarperCollins, pounds 16.99, 421 pp AT THE very least, Charles Osborne deserves a medal forpersistence. He has ploughed through everything Agatha ...
Books: Millennium Reputations Which are the most overrated authors, or books, of the past 1,000 years? Continuing our series, the novelist and former Minister Douglas Hurd nominates A. E. Housman
Aug 01, 1999; ... RATHER over 10 years ago the Home Secretary had to make a speechin the Commons about capital punishment. I had come across theselines and asked my advisers whether I should use them: They hand us now in Shrewsbury jail; The whistles blow forlorn, And trains ...
Books: History served chilled Malcolm finds that his boyhood aversion to the works of the Sovietologist E. H. Carr remains unchanged
Aug 01, 1999; ... The Vices of Integrity: E. H. Carr, 1892-1982 by Jonathan Haslam Verso, pounds 25, 306 pp SOME HISTORIANS can point to the special influence, thecharismatic teacher or the inspiring book, which made them devotethemselves to the study of history. In my own case ...
Books: Best-sellers
Aug 01, 1999; ... Paperback non-fiction 1 Stalingrad, Antony Beevor (Penguin, pounds 12.99). Week'sestimated sale: 3,824. 2 Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, Amanda Foreman (Flamingo,pounds 8.99). 3,816. 3 Driving Over Lemons: An Optimist in Andalucia, Chris Stewart(Sort Of Books, ...
Books: A very queer fish indeed Simon Singh on the sudden reappearance of a creature that was swimming while the dinosaurs roamed
Aug 01, 1999; ... A Fish Caught in Time: The Search for the Coelacanth by Samantha Weinberg Fourth Estate, pounds 13.99, 239 pp MANY PEOPLE have a vague recollection of the story of thecoelacanth, but few of us appreciate the impact that this relic fromthe age of the dinosaurs has had ...
Books: Mohamed Fayed's many fantasies Henry Porter applauds an account of the death of Diana, Princess of Wales which deals in facts
Aug 01, 1999; ... Diana: The Last Days by Martyn Gregory Virgin, pounds 15.99, 256 pp When you put this book down you're left with one question: how onearth has Mohamed Fayed got away with it? How, in the two yearssince the death of Diana, Princess of Wales has he managed to dodgethe ...
Books: Jane's calamities
Aug 01, 1999; ... The Girls' Guide To Hunting and Fishing by Melissa Bank Viking, pounds 9.99, 274 pp IF YOU thought you had heard the last of Bridget Jones's Diary,think again. Here is yet another book on the exploits of the modernsingle female. The Girls' Guide to ...
Books: Hunt hauntings
Aug 01, 1999; ... The Chase by Lorna Fergusson Bloomsbury, pounds 16.99, 310 pp THIS novel is all about death, its story regularly interrupted bybrief, morbid tableaux from prehistory and the more recent past. Butthis is not a crime novel, except in so far as its heroine is avictim ...
Books: Mad poet's society
Aug 01, 1999; ... The Lightning Cage by Alan Wall Chatto & Windus, pounds 14.99, 300 pp ALAN WALL's new novel - part historical puzzle, part contemporarydetective story - is the latest reworking of the split-narrativeformula that helped to make Peter Ackroyd's Hawksmoor and A ....
Books: A broad vista of vignettes
Aug 01, 1999; ... The Bedroom of the Mister's Wife by Philip Hensher Chatto & Windus, pounds 10, 200 pp PHILIP HENSHER's three novels have covered the waterfront: frommusic in Vienna to drug-taking in Berlin via sexual hanky-panky inThe House of Commons. None of them have quite ...
Books: The Literary Life
Aug 01, 1999; ... JAMIE OLIVER, the BBC's "Naked Chef", has been cooking up a stormat Number 10. As the author of a recipe book that has so far soldsome 185,000 copies, Oliver is no stranger to kitchen cabinets, buthe admits he was surprised to receive a call asking him to serve his ...
Books: Paperbacks
Aug 01, 1999; ... The King Incorporated by Neal Ascherson Granta Books, pounds 8.99 THE King is Belgium's Leopold II, whose so-called Congo Free Statewas one of the most atrocious criminal regimes in history. His solepurpose appears to have been the extraction of wealth without ...
Books: Shiver of recognition Jane Shilling praises a novelist who extracts universal themes from individual crises
Aug 01, 1999; ... Broke Heart Blues by Joyce Carol Oates Virago, pounds 16.99, 502 pp JOYCE CAROL OATES possesses a singular talent - so judiciouslydeployed as never to risk becoming a mannerism or a gimmick - oftaking a single, catastrophic event and drawing from it, with a ...
Travel: The last secrets of the Silk Road Four British women are retracing the ancient trade routes across central Asia on horseback for charity. Camilla Bonn joins them, savouring the untamed plains of Kyrgyzstan, still untouched by Western tourism
Aug 01, 1999; ... TWO MEN appeared from nowhere on the snow-blown road and whippedtheir horses to catch up with ours. Once level with us, they turnedand grinned, joggling loosely in their sheepskin-lined saddles, theirlong padded overcoats flapping behind them in the wind. "Where areyou going?" one called ...
Travel: I'm getting married in the morning Stag parties used to be hometown one-nighters. Now, says Paul Gogarty, bridegrooms can hire their own island, or even an Indian palace, for the ritual
Aug 01, 1999; ... A DECADE ago on a stag weekend in Amsterdam, the city of AnneFrank and lurex, I looked on as a prospective groom fell over in aclub at 3am. Somehow, on our travels that night, he had bought anantique table as a present for his fiancee. Unfortunately, the tablestood directly in the line ...
Travel: The smart set on sea Where do the well-heeled go to sniff some ozone? Christopher Middleton selects five English `enclaves of respectability' and finds out why they are a cut above
Aug 01, 1999; ... BURNHAM MARKET may not have quite the cachet of East Hampton,summer playground of rich New Yorkers, but to its well-heeled,regular August visitors it is every bit as exclusive. Equallypopular with the Peter Jones set are Rock, aka Kensington-super-Mare,in Cornwall - where holiday homes ...
Travel: Ocean deep, mountain high in a teen romance Out of the Rat Race
Aug 01, 1999; ... Week 39: Mount Kinabalu, east Malaysia Money spent so far: pounds 5,638 Addresses collected: 0 Ailments: 9 mosquito bites, stiff legs I HAD ALWAYS fancied the idea of a few days on a tropical islandwith the woman of my dreams. But being on Sipadan with Annelie ...
Travel: Mountain adventures or a quiet spot by the pool I was surprised to find myself careering down a snowy track pulled by huskies
Aug 01, 1999; ... VILLA TURISTICA DE BUBION, GRANADA Set on the steep bank of the Poqueira Gorge, this was the firstVilla Turistica and is built in the unique vernacular architecturedating back to Moorish times. It has villas for two, four and sixpeople with a wealth of activities, from ...
Travel: Up and away from the crowded coast The hillside villages of Spain's Andalusian interior provide an escape from the excesses of the seaside below. Annie Bennett finds an affordable new way to stay there
Aug 01, 1999; ... " COME up and see my distillery," said Jose Manuel Pascual, owner ofEl Alambique, a tiny bar in the village of Periana, north-east ofMalaga. Upstairs, I was confronted with an antiquated, bright redcontraption, in which locally grown anise, alcohol and pure springwater trickle ...
Travel: Of all the bars in all the world Delhi If it's Delhi it's just got to be Djinns. Lesley Downer jumps the queue
Aug 01, 1999; ... IT'S a balmy night in Delhi. Outside Djinns, in the Delhi Hyatt,the line disappears into the darkness. It must be at least ahundred- people long - men in suits and black T-shirts, women inskimpy figure-hugging tops barely grazing the navel and skin-tighthipsters. They are all young, ...
Travel: New York Fifty Seven Fifty Seven
Aug 01, 1999; ... IN 1996 Fifty Seven Fifty Seven bar at the Four Seasons introducedits Martini Menu - 15 stylish cocktails that pack a powerbroker'spunch, including the cranberry-and-Cointreau "Cosmopolitan" and atraditional "James Bond" (shaken, not stirred). Since then,Manhattan's rich set has mobbed ...
Travel: Hong Kong Vong and Felix
Aug 01, 1999; ... STARING at each other from either side of Hong Kong's spectacularharbour, Vong (at the Mandarin Oriental) and Felix (in Kowloon'sPeninsula Hotel) are the bars to head for. VONG Vong is in the heart of Central, Hong Kong's financial district,on the top floor of the Mandarin ...
Travel: Los Angeles Sky Bar Mondrian Hotel
Aug 01, 1999; ... THE Mondrian Hotel's Sky Bar is currently the hippest spot in LA,seven nights a week. Locals have even been known to take a room atthe hotel simply to ensure they can get in. If the ancient Greeks built a bar this is what it would look like:white roofless walls under perpetually ...
Travel: London Lobby Bar No 1 Aldwych
Aug 01, 1999; ... IT'S BEEN many a year since a London hotel was last the place tosee and be seen - but now the in-crowd has two hotel venues to choosefrom: the Met Bar at the Metropolitan Hotel on Old Park Lane and theLobby Bar at No 1 Aldwych. The Met Bar is open to non-residents until 7pm; after ...
Travel: It's a Duke's life down in Acapulco A trace of Fifties Hollywood glamour still clings to Mexico's famous playground. Rory Spowers follows John Wayne's path to a coconutful of tequila on the dramatic Pacific cliffs
Aug 01, 1999; ... IN 1963, long before the Las Vegas gigs and the rhinestone suits,Elvis Presley made a film called Fun in Acapulco. Inevitably, thecharacter he played launched himself off the famous cliffs at LaQuebrada to win the love of the local beauty. In those days,Acapulco was the height of ...
House & Home: Is there a hidden peril under your house?
Aug 01, 1999; ... WHEN Dave Harrison, a Yorkshire builder, started diggingfoundations for a new conservatory on his house at Hedon, near Hull,he thought that it would add to the value of his property. Instead,he started a chain of events which ended with him demolishing it. The channels he dug ...
Travel: How they checked out
Aug 01, 1999; ... HOME CHECK carried out a survey for me. All I had to do was givethem my address and then wait until their nine-page report droppedthrough the letter-box. Ian White and Nigel Grayson said they spent2-3 hours getting to grips with my neighbourhood's "environmentalintegrity" but it didn't ...
Travel: How to spy on the neighbours You love the house - but who lives next door, and are they noisy? Mark Palmer investigates the private eyes who'll find out things estate agents won't tell you
Aug 01, 1999; ... YOU CAN find them in the classified ads of most newspapers andmagazines - and there are more and more of them. Usually theydescribe themselves as "professional", "discreet", "reliable" andthey always promise to leave "no stone unturned" as they go abouttheir business, stressing at all ...
House & Home: The right connections It must be worth living in if Constable painted it. Gwenda Joyce-Brophy on how a brush with fame helps sell property
Aug 01, 1999; ... FAME might be fleeting, but the idea, as any PR will tell you, isto make the most of it while it lasts. The same rule applies toproperty: if you want your house to sell, flaunt its connections. And this is just what canny estate agents are doing. New on themarket is Mill Cottage, ...
House & Home: Up to my neck in it Diary of an Estate Agent
Aug 01, 1999; ... MONDAY Tricky morning. Trying to arrange viewings on a pounds 144,500bungalow just outside Bath. The owner works nights and will onlytake viewings at precisely 9am or 6pm. She has asked us to begprospective buyers not to go to the house during daytime to sneak alook, because it ...
House & Home: Double trouble with new windows On the level
Aug 01, 1999; ... WHEN double-glazed PVC replacement windows were first marketed inBritain, one of the big selling points was that, unlike old-fashionedtimber, the new material would last forever, with no need fortiresome painting or maintenance. One company even had anadvertising campaign which included ...
House & Home: On the up in Hackney Downs Changing Values Carrara House, Hackney, East London
Aug 01, 1999; ... IN THE 1990s, the spruced-up London townhouse has stood in everstarker contrast to the grim terrace house of the northern industrialcity. While the former has become a pension plan in bricks andmortar, the latter has become worth little more than dinner for twoat a top Chelsea ...
House & Home: You'll never blow these down, Mr Wolf In the folk tale, two of the three little pigs lost their homes. But today, says Clive Fewins, traditional materials such as sticks, straw and bricks make robust modern buildings
Aug 01, 1999; ... THE HOUSE OF STICKS They created a frame of hazel twigs and tied the wattle togetherwith sisal, the traditional method used in the area CLIVE CARD and Janet Leon bought their house of sticks for pounds125,000 in 1993. It is a 16th-century thatched cottage in ...
City: P&O speeds up Bovis float
Aug 01, 1999; ... P&O, the shipping group, is preparing to bring forward theproposed stockmarket flotation of its Bovis Construction subsidiaryto this autumn with London looking the most likely location for aprimary listing. Lord Sterling, P&O's chairman, wants Bovis to be ready to float inOctober ...
City: National Power ponders pounds 1bn share buyback
Aug 01, 1999; ... NATIONAL Power is preparing a pounds 1bn shareholder payoutfollowing the planned sale of its Drax power station in Yorkshire,the largest coal-fired electricity plant in the UK. The handout, which is likely to be in the form of share buyback,would help placate angry investors and ...
City: Germans set their sights on Severn Trent Water
Aug 01, 1999; ... RWE, one of Germany's leading utilities, is eyeing Severn TrentWater, the second largest water company in the UK. City analysts say that RWE, which has ambitious expansion plans,is keen to buy a UK utility and has high regard for the Midlands-based water company. Severn Trent is ...
City: Greenalls plans break up
Aug 01, 1999; ... GREENALLS is working on radical plans to break itself up andrebrand the company as a hotels and health and fitness business,centred on its successful four-star De Vere hotel chain. The favoured plan that has emerged from several weeks of meetingsbetween Greenalls directors and ...
City: Clipper sets sail for Aim
Aug 01, 1999; ... SIR Robin Knox-Johnston, the first person to sail single-handednon-stop around the world, is to bring his pounds 4m Clipper Venturessailing business to Aim and is considering a share issue toinstitutions, writes Damian Reece. The company, which organises the Clipper round-the-world ...
City: Housing boom threat to base rates
Aug 01, 1999; ... ONE of Britain's top forecasting groups is sounding a warning thatthe housing market could overheat, forcing the Bank of England toraise interest rates. The report, due out today from the Ernst & Young Item Club, comeson the eve of an MPC meeting likely to keep base rate at 5 per ...
City: London theatres up for grabs Hambros hired to sell Palladium and Garrick owner for pounds 100m
Aug 01, 1999; ... STOLL Moss, Britain's largest theatre owner, is to be put up forsale in a move that will mean that most of London's theatreland willchange hands before the end of the year. Advisers for Janet Holmes a Court, the widow of the Australiantycoon Robert Holmes a Court, are said to have ...
City: Business Brief
Aug 01, 1999 ... ISOTRAK, which provides transport management systems for fleetoperators, has been bought out of its parent NFC in a pounds 29m dealbacked by 3i, the venture capitalist. 3i has invested pounds 11m totake a majority stake in the business, while Lombard Finance NFC andIsotrak's management, ...
City: SmithKline backs SkyePharma
Aug 01, 1999; ... BRITAIN'S resurgent drugs giant, SmithKline Beecham, is close totaking a $10m stake in SkyePharma, the biotechnology company, as partof a deal in which SkyePharma will reformulate SmithKline'srevolutionary new drug for Parkinson's disease, Requip. Requip, launched two years ago, ...
City: Ice cream sellers fail in Wall's squeeze
Aug 01, 1999; ... OFFICIALS from the Office of Fair Trading are investigating claimsthat Birds Eye Wall's, part of Unilever, is trying to forceindependent ice cream wholesalers out of business before theconclusion of a Competition Commission probe into the pounds 400m icecream market in ...
City: Disney takes pounds 15m stake in Soccernet
Aug 01, 1999; ... WALT Disney is in talks with the Daily Mail to buy a controllingstake in Soccernet, one of Britain's most successful internet sites,for pounds 15m. Disney has been holding talks recently with executives fromAssociated Newspapers the Daily Mail & General Trust's mainsubsidiary ....
City: Candover closes in on Earls Court
Aug 01, 1999; ... CANDOVER, one of the City's best known venture capital groups, isclose to clinching a pounds 250m deal to win control of Earls Courtand Olympia, the capital's top exhibition centres put up for sale inMarch by P&O. It is understood that Candover is working in partnership with ...
City: The beef behind Bovis City Profile - Luther Cochrane is the Southern lawyer who became chairman of a client's company which he then sold to Bovis. As chief executive of the P&O construction subsidiary he is gearing up for an autumn flotation
Aug 01, 1999; ... New York, yells the cab driver as we belt our way along FifthAvenue one steaming morning last week, is about two things: money andsex. "That's all that goes on here and that's all you need to know," hesays definitively. I have hardly stepped into Luther Cochrane's Park Avenue ...