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With novelist-screenwriter Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, 64 -- a German-born Polish Jew who escaped to England when she was 11, then lived in Delhi with her Indian architect husband for 25 years until relocating in New York City in 1976 -- Merchant and Ivory form what amounts to a nuclear family, a multinational corporation and a tight little island of quality cinema. "We're like the government of the U.S. sometimes," notes Ivory as the trio sits in a suite at the Beverly Hills Hotel to discuss their new film, Howards End. "I'm the President, he's Congress...
Bush, by contrast, is taking no chances. Under Teeter's guidance he has moved quickly to polish his conservative credentials by coming full circle on taxes and soliciting the resignation of National Endowment for the Arts Chairman John Frohnmayer after Buchanan demanded his head. Bush denied that a five-day swing through seven Southern states last week was beginning to make him appear panicked and frantic. "I've thought about that, and I've concluded it doesn't. What I want to do is look like we're not taking anything for granted." But the same day, Bush suddenly...
...Polish Food and Dance Celebration--Dunster House Dining Hall, 9 p.m. Free...
Poetry Reading in Polish and English--byPiotr Sonner. Lamont Room, Farnsworth Room, 5:30p.m...
...presume, however, that Mr. Lane only intended to satirize what he thinks is the pharisaism of some Christians, and that he simply lacks the maturity, polish and imagination to do so without sinking to a blasphemous denigration of the religion itself...