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PAGE 36 Silence the kids £25 I LOVE my 12 grandchildren dearly. And my six greatgrandchildren are a joy. But I can't understand why the teenagers among them, and thousands more in their age group, must constantly surround themselves with noisy music. Are they fearful of the quietness of solitude? Or does the sound create a 4arrier between them ftives and thoughts and feelings that confuse and frighten them? Explain it to me someone! Mrs Peggy Chapman, Lowestoft, Suffolk. £5 SEARCHING the sales for trousers has proved an ideal slimming exercise since most men's departments are either on a store's top floor or in the basement.

I began with a 36-inch waist, and ended with a 34-inch. Howard Clark, York. SUNDAY MIRROR, January 19, 1992 LETTERS HAVE YOUR SAY AND WIN AS WELL 4 4 THE ROAD TO NOOKY £5O I WANT to defend the so-called "Killer Roads." As a former heavy goods vehicle driver, I have handled everything from small motorcycles to tank transporters. In that time I have had stupid motorists cut me up on blind bends, articulators fly past me roadhogs to blame for motoring accidents? Write to MADELEINE at the address below. ETT grieves me to hear there sis £9 million in Premium Bond prizes waiting to be claimed.

The rules should now be amended and bond holders notified that if they do not claim their winnings by a specific date they will lose the chance. Then, perhaps, the balance could be divided and given to all those, like me, who have participated from the beginning but never won a prize. Mrs Maureen Matthews, Greenford, Middlesex. For the record £5 I FIND it pathetic that many Britons want nothing to do with Europe. I feel the boot should be on the other foot.

We have the dirtiest streets in Europe, the worst record for wifebeating, child-molesting, rape and street violence, the highest divorce figures and the most people in prison. I wouldn't blame any Continental if THEY shunned US. Mrs F. Bond, Warley, West Midlands. 1 WHEN I told my LAP five-year-old daughter she was going to have a new baby brother, she replied: "Oh, does Mummy know?" Paul Stockton, Warrington, Cheshire.

The things drivers get up to! at more than 80 mph, seen ladies putting on lipstick while driving down a dual carriageway, seen people driving with children, even animals, on their knees, and couples playing nooky while at the wheel. I have never seen a ROAD commit an offence. Yet never a week goes by without some Tom, Dick or Mary accusing some ROAD or other of being a Isn't it about time to lay the blame in the proper quarter with the maniacs behind the wheel? Walter Ray Maillard, Sheffield. WHAT do YOU think? Are roads or By MADELEINE HARMSWORTH THE NEw FiLyis of Hollywood's most glittering stars team up to play a plain, dowdy couple in FRANKIE AND JOHNNY. The pairing of Al Pacino chef for and Michelle Pfeiffer provoked doubts, but it works wonderfully well.

This has a lot to do with their artistry. In their heart- Warming portrayals of short- 1.1 order cook Johnny and waitress Frankie, both prove yet ea els again that they are much more than glamorous faces. It also has much to do with Terrence McNally's kindly Greek boss (Hecwitty and sensitive tor Elizondo) to alternabroadening of his twotively sex-obsessed and hander stage play the sexually-repressed fellow story of how two lonely waitresses (Kate Nelligan hearts come tentatively and Jane Morris). together in early middle-age. Occasionally, everyone In the film, set in the seems a mite too nice.

bustling diner where But largely, it is a film to depress the spirits in these Frankie and Johnny ing times. (15) work, it is fleshed out with a colourful assort- A RACIAL prejument of big-city eccen- dice, this time betrics, who range from A tween blacks and MISS is Indian-born director Mira Nair's subject in MISSISSIPPI MASALA a well-intentioned, but rather plodding tale of love between a workingclass black American (Denzel Washington) and a beautiful middle-class Indian girl (Sarita Choudhury). (15) A Love lorn appearancesDON'Tjudge by the homespun message of DON'T TELL HER IT'S ME, in which Emily (Jami Gertz) fails to fall at first sight for cancer sufferer Gus (Steve Guttenberg) then loses her heart when he's given a new, macho image by his meddlesome sister (Shelley Long). Amiable. (12) kThe only novelty in FREDDY'S DEAD, THE FINAL NIGHTMARE (let's hope so) is an indifferent 3-D interlude at the end of this Elm Street saga.

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He writes: "They told us they had more bears at their hotel and brought them away as they loved going on holiday." E. Edwards, of Ma- MN chynlleth, Powys, was stunned one miserable summer's day when another middle-aged couple drove up to a beach, took deckchairs from their boot, put on waterproof coats and settled down despite the rain lashing about them. He writes: "They seemed to be saying: 'To heck with the weather, we're on holiday'." mi FOR Mrs V.M. Ell Thompson, of Walderslade, Kent, it was the sight of "blokes rushing around 'planting' artificial flowers at an RAF base, ready for a visiting dignitary." FINALLY, on a 111 Greek beach, Clifford Bygate, of Sheffield, saw "a Brit complete with bowler hat, collar and tie and waistcoat. The temperature was in the 90's.

But at least he was barefooted and carrying his black patent shoes." IMASIERBLII.D CAR PORTS and CANOPIES 1 I MilArc4NE 23' 0634 291277 (24HR) 18 HENLEY BUSINESS PARK, TRIDENT CLOSE MEDWAY CITY ESTATE, STROOD, KENT 33 OFF If the hat fits £5 ARE men more go "ahead" than women when it comes to hats? Give a man a trade or a sport and he usually finds a hat to match it. The chef, teacher, cricketer, butcher, even the commuter, has his own distinctive headgear. It makes me wonder why housewives and mothers don't sport one. Many kinds might fit the bill. But I can't help feeling there is only one true crown.

A halo. Mrs Joy Richards, Crosby, Liverpool. fi.