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Most films, as they ravel their stories, narrow their focus to two or three central characters. The English Patient, though, expands its field of vision to embrace the impromptu communities around Almasy--notably Hana and her Sikh lover Kip (Naveen Andrews). They re-enact, with less melodrama, the arc of Almasy and Katharine's desperate affair. Almasy wants his love to flee in a plane; Kip sends Hana soaring on pulleys into the clerestory of the monastery chapel. Up there with the heavenly murals: Kip knows that's where this pensive angel belongs...
...women's plan was to start hard because once the pack reaches the hills of the Van Courtland course, the narrow path and the grueling incline dictate that it doesn't pay to save anything. The results of the Crimson effort were faster times for the entire field of runners...
...After a narrow loss--by just six points--to retiring Representative Lewis Payne in 1994, Landrith hopes to do better against Virginia state Senator Virgil Goode. The conservative Landrith, who wants to cut the deficit by cutting social programs like the National Endowment for the Arts rather than by raising taxes, is getting his message out with the help of Steve Forbes and Newt Gingrich, who have made appearances on his behalf...
Enzi won the G.O.P. primary by a narrow 2,000-vote margin. His conservative platform includes a "simpler, flatter" tax system and more state control of federal lands. Enzi hopes to profit from the endorsement of popular retiring Senator Alan Simpson and a solid state tradition of Republican representation...
Wamp is not running from Newt Gingrich in this campaign, but is trying to shed a zealous image to protect his narrow 1994 victory. Tennessee's Third District ranks fifth in the country in federal funding, and Wamp has juggled protection of that money with balancing the budget, a goal he says is worth losing his seat over. But the Department of Energy--a department on the G.O.P. hit list--spends $2 billion a year in the district...