12 March 1999
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From the Editor…
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Cover story
Yanks go home . . . but not just yet
The American and European elites are increasingly at loggerheads. But on this side of the Atlantic, John Lloyddetects more than a little humbug
Features
And what about the workless?
Donald Hirsch fears that new Labour's Budgets, though helpful to the poor, will have only a partial effect on social exclusion
Let us now praise the old crones
John-Paul Flintoff finds that young men can learn much from older women (no, not that)
The faceless ones are in a flap
In Brussels, allegations about corruption, guns and astrologers threaten some glittering careers, reports Stephen Bates
Down with the Stepford gays
There's more to life than shopping and cruising. Tim Teeman blasts the dim conformity of the urban homosexual lifestyle
The reading scheme that died
Francis Beckett finds a better option than the literacy hour ministers have forced on schools
Ceausescu's children still have no place to go
Poverty is consigning a new generation of Romanians to the infamous orphanages
Bananas are only the warm-up act
With GM food arousing deep passions in Europe, a transatlantic punch-up looms, warns Tom Burke
Arts & Culture
Standing in the light
Freddie Young worked with Hitchcock on Blackmail and Lean on Lawrence of Arabia. Chris Peachment recalls the century-long career of a great cinematographer
Organ donor
Jazz byRichard Cook
Work ethic
Art byCharles Darwent
Child's play
Theatre byDavid Jays
Beetle juice
Design byHugh Aldersey-Williams
Books
Shakespeare in Bloom. When we talk about Hamlet we are talking about ourselves, says the Falstaff of Anglo-American letters. This, says his fiercest critic, is exactly how not to discuss the Bard
Shakespeare: the Invention of the Human
Harold Bloom Fourth Estate, 745pp, £25
Below-stairs mischief
Murder on the Verandah: love and betrayal in British Malaya
Eric Lawlor HarperCollins, 268pp, £17.99
Novel of the week
Our Fathers
Andrew O'Hagan Faber & Faber, 282pp, £16.99
Come on girls, let's sort it. What has gone wrong in the women's movement when old- and new-generation feminists condemn one another so viciously? Two new books attempt to offer a way out of the maze
The Whole Woman
Germaine Greer Doubleday, 348pp, £16.99
Come on girls, let's sort it. What has gone wrong in the women's movement when old- and new-generation feminists condemn one another so viciously? Two new books attempt to offer a way out of the maze
On the Move: feminism for a new generation
Natasha Walter (editor) Virago, 186pp, £9.99
A sense of an ending
Behind the Times: the decline and fall of the 20th-century avant-gardes
Eric Hobsbawm Thames & Hudson, 48pp, £7.95
Observations
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