April 23, 1999 • Page Image 91
…ro the United Stares, where the holiday is an excuse to have a mattress sale." Earlier, Hare remarks that he is searching for the passion of the Middle East, which is missing in the "shallow West." But when it bites him in the rear, he just stands there. He seems perplexed, too, when Israelis call his Jewish wife, fashion designer Nicole Farhi, an "assimila- tionist." She is a survivor who as a child spent the war hiding in a French barn. She ...…

















































