Word: polishers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Claudia Schiffer wasn't even a contender. Neither were other supermodels. They were . . . well, too glamorous, too intimidating for Oscar de la Renta's new perfume Volupte. Though Polish-born Derota Puzio, the model chosen by the designer, will surely turn heads, she looks like a regular person...
...starched white shirt and dark suit, tie tightly knotted at his throat, spectacles ever in place, he looked like a stern schoolmaster who had spent so many hours in lonely thought that he moved with an evident lack of ease among other people. From his earliest boyhood in a Polish ghetto, he was propelled by a determination to help bring about the birth of a Jewish state. It became the dream that motivated his life, first as leader of a bloody campaign against the British and the Arabs, finally as Prime Minister of Israel...
Menachem Begin came early to his Zionist zeal. He was born in a Polish town where his father was a leader in the Jewish community. After earning a law degree at the University of Warsaw, he became national commander of Betar, a right-wing paramilitary group that advocated the violent ouster of the British from Palestine. When the Germans invaded Poland in 1939, he fled to Lithuania, leaving behind his parents, who died under the Nazis. A year later, he joined the anti-German Free Polish Army and served with a unit that was attached to British forces in Palestine...
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...