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...Merchant. Well, any film producer could have that surname. This one was a superb producer, because he got so much on the screen for so little. Distinguished actors worked for him for peanuts, and not from intimidation but for love. His rule was: never haggle, never beg. Charm was sufficient?that and one of his sumptuous Indian dinners...
DIED. ISMAIL MERCHANT, 68, producer half of the filmmaking team that revitalized and repopularized the literary, elaborately costumed period film; after surgery for stomach ulcers; in London. With director James Ivory (also his life partner) and usually with screenwriter Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, the Indian-born Merchant oversaw more than 40 films over five decades, turning classic novels by authors like E.M. Forster (Howards End), Henry James (The Europeans) and Kazuo Ishiguro (The Remains of the Day) into box-office successes. Famous for his relentless, sometimes outlandish efforts to keep costs low (he was known to steal props and grab journalists...
...melodious dialogue inspired by the early blues songs he loved. He was influenced by the work of playwright Ed Bullins--who showed him that "you could put black folks on stage as black folks"--but was pretty much a theatrical naif. He hadn't read Shakespeare (except for The Merchant of Venice in school) or Tennessee Williams or virtually any of the other modern American classics. There was some calculation there. When he started writing poetry, Wilson immersed himself in poets like Wallace Stevens, Robert Lowell and Dylan Thomas--and "as a result, it took me from...
Such belittling descriptions would not seem appropriate for a man who had triggered an untimely presummit squabble between the superpowers and a clash of wills between the Executive and Legislative branches of the U.S. Government. Soviet Merchant Seaman Miroslav Medvid, 25, had inadvertently created this political uproar on Oct. 24 by leaping 40 feet from the Soviet freighter Marshal Konev into the Mississippi River near New Orleans. When the ship, laden with corn, finally pulled away from its dock last Saturday afternoon with Medvid aboard, a sad personal and political saga that had lasted for more than two weeks apparently...
...said last month, in an address to Sydney's Lowy Institute for International Policy. "China's economic dynamism is something we feel palpably in this country." In the 1840s, thousands of Chinese indentured laborers and free settlers were drawn to a thriving colony. Today, 430,000 people, including merchant bankers, students, artists, gamblers and tourists, move between Australia and China each year; if Hong Kong is included, the figure almost doubles. China's rise is easing Australia's isolation, putting it close to one of the hubs of the world economy. But it is also taking a toll: last year...