April 5, 1995

FEMALE politicians are seldom asked for family recipes. Maybe it isn't considered seemly. "People don't consider us one of them," said Geraldine A. Ferraro, former Congresswoman, now the United States representative to the United Nations Human Rights Commission and the only woman ever to be a major party's candidate for Vice President, as she rolled out the dough for her mother's Easter pie recipe one day last week. "When people see me in a grocery store they say, 'I didn't know you shopped.

The mood seemed relaxed Friday night as perfumed Argentines, chatting and smiling, lined up in suits and flowery dresses for a movie. Suddenly, a loud argument could be heard. "Shame on you, shame on you for thinking that way!" Patricia Cata rella, 72, rebuked her friend Ruben Quesada, 76. "I lost a brother in the war, and you lost no one!"

Farewell, Puget Sound, Mount Rainier and Seattle. Hello, Meadowlands. In 1996, the Byrne Meadowlands Arena will serve as host for the Final Four of the N.C.A.A. men's basketball tournament. The official logo, featuring the Statue of Liberty and the words "Meadowlands 1996," was unveiled yesterday in newspaper advertisements.

Jaime Kleinman, 16, took another look at the American Revolution and surprised herself by arguing that the British were right. "They did everything for the colonists," she said. "They didn't deserve to be turned on." Many of her classmates at a Long Island high school, however, argued just as strongly that the British were wrong.

MAKE it Ivana, she says, simply Ivana, and she chops the air with her hand as if to say, "Enough of that Mrs. Trump stuff." She leans across her desk in the Park Avenue showroom of the House of Ivana, a fashion and fragrance company she likens to the House of Chanel. "You don't have to put down the second name," she says, pointing to the open notebook. "Ivana is what the people call me."