GROAN WITH TWOTWNo one would have believed, in the last minutes of the World Series, that the Stock Market was being watched from a Portakabin near Charnock Richard services. No one could have dreamed that Madonna would win the Eurovision song contest. Few left-handed Armenian clergymen even considered the advantages of an invasion of killer voles. And yet, across the Baltic, minds immeasurably more hip and trendy than ours, regarded their navels with seven oculars. And slowly and surely, they cancelled their 'Newsweek' subscriptions. |