The Independent - London, February 17th, 1996
Many things have happened in my life which when I remember them cause me, to quote the Shorter Oxford, " the feelings of humiliation or distress arising from the consciousness of something dishonourable or ridiculous in one's own behaviour or circumstance, or from a situation offensive to one's own or another's sense of propriety and decency". I groan aloud when I think of them. I am not going to describe them, for while most can be turned into harmless anecdote, complete with period detail and the hammy confessionality which (for me) makes Woody Allen so unendearing, the truth is that the mor...
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