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Recycling does brisk business in this household. Toilet rolls, tissue boxes and tin cans are either taken to school to be used for "junk modelling" or collected to be put in the box provided by the local council. On occasion, the twins like to help load up this box, which is how Claire stumbled across something familiar.

At Comme des Garçons, simple clothes get a subversive twist - thanks to the playful genius of Rei Kawakubo. Susannah Frankel gives the designer a big hand

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THE DETERMINED - if rather frozen - faces were introduced to me one by one. "She's Mickey Mouse. She's on strike. He's Goofy. He's on strike. He's the Sheriff of Nottingham. He's on strike. They're the Chipmunks. They're on strike."

BERLINERS AWOKE to a portentous grey sky yesterday, and at around noon leaden speeches began raining down with the monotony of autumn drizzle, but darkness brought out the light-hearted who had been taking cover from this very German feast.

Mickey Mouse

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With Bugs Bunny we find ourselves in completely uncharted terrain. Animation being an (almost) exclusively contemporary phenomenon, we're unable to call on precedents from earlier centuries when attempting to measure his eligibility for posterity. And if we turn for guidance to the movie cartoon's direct antecedent, the newspaper-syndicated "funnies", the evidence is inconclusive, to say the least. Have the Katzenjammer Kids survived? Have Jiggs and Maggie survived? Can Winsor McCay, creator of one of the undisputed masterworks of the genre, the sumptuous Little Nemo in Slumberland, be described as a household name? Has anyone lately been known to laugh at a Punch cartoon circa 1900 - or, for that matter, circa 1999?

FRANCE - or rather part of France - is fighting a rearguard action against the word euroland, the semi-official title for the 11 countries using the euro.

DISNEY WANTS TO BUY THE MILLENNIUM DOME

SULLIVAN'S TRAVELS DIR. PRESTON STURGES (1941)