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WHIFF OF NO SMOKE
.'.'a', i',rr aver for r irie ,earg ari': Tr er I’LL“ iii; (3H r fjrf :rr (1’;lt}" r", ’Ieiiril‘t tit/r hearing Smotlzrrirt", triad tr/ trarrsturrri itself into a srr ow: free IIJIIIUII No riiorr; filth, ternptatiori'. :n the put).
.‘Jatr hing deliriousl, sensuous piurries ot srrioke rising Iffilll a ff)’)ll‘IllI ot rtgarettes And. indeed ll", IrlltiIlI eyed expeetatrons seeriierl ’,()llIIllllt:(I on a rerent trip to that newly tag purged r:rt‘,. [)uhlin. Ihe puh air: so oddly crystal rtiear. lIo\.'/e'.'er, upon entering a nrghteluh riiy huoyarit attitude towards sriiokeless puhlrr: spar:es soon took a sun'erve tor the \.~./orse.
l or no sooner had I stepped forth into the rtluh than my nostrils were hit hard with the overwhelming stench of soriiehody's rertent p; ssing of wind The smell was stiekrly all pervading. But this was orin the hegrnning The same unidentifiahle perpetrator eontrnued to l(?I|(?\.’(} thernselVes throughout the eyenrng. And rt didn't end there The whiff of fresh sweat from gyrating hodres. late evening heer hreaths. \«ornrt in the toilets, tood grease rewry par tor the course nrghtrtluh srnell had heeoriie deadly apparent. Iherefoie, on these grounds I (fall for a national rethink Sriioking does have a positiye sottial Itlll(‘.Il()liI to (TOVOI up other. more repugnant sriiells.
Gillian Sherwood
Edinhur'gh
SHEVA HURTS CHEEK
Re: Radar: Press focus (516)
You riiissed one of the most intemstrng features of Andra Shewhenko in your Press
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MONO SCOTIA Re: Vertigo (516) While I agree ‘.‘.’lIIi Neil Murra. that putting sulititles on the SCUIIISIII(?I(?'.'|7;I()IIIlltzililf«1‘3? of Sweet Sixteen r:ould han- heen insulting to people in (ireenoek. feel he is wrong to argue that that rt “.‘Jasn't aliout language, rt was ahout elr ssC Io argue that everyone in Scotland untould understand the language used in the filrii suggests that he vrex'xs this as a rnonoeultural society one made up entirer of ltilIlH? Scots. Are the rest of us. whether [English ror Scottish English) is our native tongue or not. to he exrtluded trorii understanding this ineredihle IlIlli/z) Dave Ashford Glasgow
GUFF AND NONSENSE
Re: Theatre opinion (516) How can someone who writes in such a constipated way he an artistic director"? ‘ . We also r'eguir'e a r'e—exariiination of what CONSIIIIIIOS creative work — the (T()II‘.'(?IIII()II£1I lahels are out of date and funding hodies need to he ahle to respond to the cultural aspirations of young Scottish people today is I\I)I(ZL1I of Andy Arnold's Opinion. If you stayed awake long enough tr:
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Re: Film reviews (515)
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