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SATURDA YS are by tradition quiet days in New Zealand. ln Auckland everything closes down by noon on Fridays to enable the inhabitants to get clear of the place in good time. Visitors from Singapore and even Fiji search in vain for the slightest sign of jollification. Here are no massage parlours, no public squares filled with the Gay Transvestite crowd.

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Is it the gift of the gab that has the lovelies beating on your bedroom door? If it is, then how is the gab made gabbier? The answer seemed to be lurking way down among the Private Eye small ads: "Witty author gives private lessons on the Art of Conversation in Pimlico home." A course in talking, and in Pimlico to boot! I wrote at once to Box 670.

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From fun surgery with M*A*S*H, ALAN ALDA has written and stars in a new movie that makes fun of Washington's disease. ln London for the premiere, he talks to DAVID TAYLOR

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