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Two representatives of opposition factions have been traveling in the United States during the last week. Shulamit Aloni is a leading leftist in Israeli politics; she founded the Citizens Rights Party as an offshot of Labor, and calls for more attention to societal problems such as prejudice against Oriental Jews...
The result, by the standards of the unconverted, is pretty tacky. Lee is fleet and exciting as ever in action, and amusing enough playing an Oriental bumpkin in the wicked city. But Revenge appears to have been edited barehanded, possibly by a few karate chops. The actors, whose performances are...
"The professorial life has a much more leisurely pace than the diplomatic," says former Israeli Foreign Minister Abba Eban. "Also," he says, "there is less trivia." He should know, having taught classics and Oriental languages at Cambridge before entering Israeli politics nearly three decades ago. Last week the mellifluous-voiced...
With declarative simplicity, The Connoisseur traces Muhlbach's plunge into a world where everyone is "into" some sort of object: wicker baskets, pre-Columbian bowls, Oriental sculptures, early American leg irons. His new acquaintances are sharks, nuzzling through dealers' galleries, circling fiercely at auctions. With cold passion, they...
Between the Nixon resignation and the Cyprus crisis, Henry Kissinger stood in his huge domain on the seventh floor at the State Department and actually let his mind wander from statecraft. "What do you think of this rug?" he asked a visitor, pointing at a handsome Oriental that had been...