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Recreating a slice of Manhattan in the New Town
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Exclusive new club hits on Edinburgh’s elite. Words: Ruth Hedges
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A fresher approach
Paisley’s scholars have hung around long enough for a proper student union building. Well, now it’s here. \r’v'ords: Jane Hamilton
fter one and a half years of r:<>rtsl'u<‘t on an': delays, Y'ti' llnw-wt. ;‘ llatsw.
right questions. In time. of course. you'll Just he "known'. Irwitations have been sent out to a potential 100 eore founder
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l’age and Park. the purpose tttmt urmn l‘as ': ts? a tufar a" flair lt's a" IMMUESllttOlll the Student Assoerat an lfl. Kht'l‘ to 'v‘ake it use rt Net ml. the w : union too far fron‘ llunter Street, :t ‘.'.as ars~ a'”t-,-' use 2 a" 1 llsri'l ' tffe'ttvtri l'lr- new tttrtlding, mil: its glass frontage hr te "‘ sound a"'t t.<t' ttrz'; it"t (tapattrty already has exerythrng that a anion and 3:. statenfs new;
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Not like Robson Green at all
I Spare a thought for poor Britney. Her new record. out in November, is apparently all a subconscious reaction to her lack of shagging. She insists that it'll be both sensual and sexual, despite the fact that. and we quote: “I'm not genna come out on this record and show my crotch or anythrng.‘ A mighty shame for many. we reckon Still, there's always Meg Ryan. who seems hellhent on shattering her reputation for rnovres of the applepre-and— vomit variety. as she gets buffed up in Jane Campion's forthcoming erotic thriller In the Cut. She plays a spinster teacher attracted to a cop who hurt 3 serial killers . . . Tom Cruise IS being lined up to play the first American pilot who died fighting Nazis in the Second World War. There Wlll be fighter planes aplenty but can he make anything cooler or more camp than Top Gun? . . Marginally cooler than all that IS James Nesbltt. who is releasrng a cover of the Dean Martin class:c ‘Little Ole Wine Drinker Me'. Despite wrne companies circling to Sign advert deals. Nesbitt claims he's definitely not doing ‘a Robson and Jerome'. Perish the thought.