"Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome, Reagan and Haig, Mr. Begin and friend, Mrs. Thatcher, Mr. Paisley, "Hello Maggie" Mr. Brezhnev and party. "Scusi dov'è il bagno?" And the ghost of McCarthy, The memories of Nixon. "Good-bye!"

And now, adding colour, a group of anonymous Latin- American meat-packing glitterati.