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...visit was shrouded in deepest secrecy, its details known only to Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres, and a few top , officials. Early last week, Osama el Baz, Mubarak's closest adviser, boarded a helicopter in Cairo and flew to the Egyptian border. He was driven to Jerusalem, where he went directly to Peres' house. At the same time, Peres, who had been attending a Labor Party meeting, announced that he was not feeling well and left for his home. There the two men met for nearly five hours before el Baz slipped out of the back...
...with Peres, the highest-level contact between the two countries since Israel's 1982 invasion of Lebanon, was the most promising development in a sudden burst of diplomacy in the Middle East over the past three weeks. In the days following el Baz's trip, two Israeli envoys visited Cairo while a second Egyptian official traveled to Jerusalem. Though the efforts could collapse at any time, the very fact that Mubarak and Peres were working together in the search for a Middle East settlement heartened diplomats in the region. In Washington, there was concern about the fragility of the latest...
...Purple Rose of Cairo is not merely one of the best movies about movies ever made. It is still more unusual, because it comes at its subject the hard way, from the front of the house, instead of from behind the scenes. Its subject is not how movies work but how they work on the audience. Or more accurately, how they once...
...business of movies then was to offer, for a quarter or a dime, a sort of divine otherness, a momentary alternative to the quotidian. This escape took many forms, but a particularly swellegant one could be found in the week's attraction at the Jewel, The Purple Rose of Cairo. In it, Tom Baxter (of the Chicago Baxters), "adventurer and explorer," is discovered by a group of rich idlers in an Egyptian tomb and whisked home with them for "a madcap Manhattan weekend," all supper clubs and penthouses, cocktail shakers and white telephones. Movies like Purple Rose, delicately parodied here...
...about it, it seems as if some progress has been made." If indeed it had, one reason was that Hussein had made skillful preparations. He has taken pains to maintain close ties throughout the Arab world, and last year became the first Arab leader to reestablish diplomatic relations with Cairo since Egypt was ostracized for signing its treaty with Israel in 1979. Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak's closest political adviser, Osama el Baz, participated in some of the Amman negotiations, and Hussein has helped with preparations for Mubarak's visit to Washington next month. Says a senior official...