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...Census. The Moslem strike into the bastion of moneyed power has roots that go back at least to the creation of independent Lebanon. As France was quitting the area in 1943, an unwritten but carefully wrought National Covenant was adopted by Lebanese leaders in an effort to accommodate the new country's volatile religious mix of Christians and Moslems. With Christians in a slight majority according to a 1932 census, the Covenant provided that the country...
...links, cattle nibble at the patches of imported English grass that have survived months of neglect. Rows of expensive golf carts sit rusting in the salt spray from the nearby Pacific. The Olympic and villa pools, long stagnant, are covered with algae-green slime. Outside the compound's wrought-iron gates, striking waiters, maids and maintenance men-who have been picketing since July under a red and black strike flag of Mexican unions-are encamped with their dogs, turkeys and barefoot children, barring entrance to all. Though they are owed four months of back pay, they contend that they...
...appeal has never been the forte of Actor Donald Sutherland, 40, and his new look-shaved-off eyebrows and a partly shaved scalp-does nothing to enhance his allure. Yet those are some of the changes that Makeup Artist Giannetto De Rossi, 33, has wrought to transform Sutherland into the lady-killing hero of Federico Fellini's film Casanova. In a three-hour session each morning on the set in Rome, Rossi also gives Sutherland a false chin and nose, then winds his remaining shoulder-length hair into curlers that stick out over his ears, making it difficult...
...true subject, the world of the American rich and the clash between new and old money. On her native ground she has never been matched, and no other American has ever portrayed so well the sometimes savage drama of life behind the damask draperies of Fifth Avenue and the wrought-iron gates of Newport. By the time of The House of Mirth in 1905, she was recognized as a major novelist and, as an aging Henry James grew silent, she took his place as the preeminent American writer, a position she held for nearly 25 years, until...
...carefully wrought addresses in the Midwest, Kissinger touched on a number of U.S. foreign policy issues, including those in the Middle East (see THE WORLD). Key points...