Word: akin
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that the whole picture of royal carnality in the film is a gross distortion. Reports TIME'S Beirut bureau chief William Stewart: "In Saudi Arabia, of all places, such a scene is unimaginable. By and large, the Saudi rulers are staunch Wahhabis, a sect with in Islam roughly akin to the Puritans. No doubt the thought of sexual dalliance must occur to some princesses (there are a lot of them), but that does not make Jeddah or Riyadh an Arabian Nights version of La Dolce Vita...
Playing for the third place in the Beanpot--especially when the contest doesn't count in the ECAC standings--is akin to taking an hourly in a pass-fail course: it means almost nothing, but doing well certainly can't hurt...
MacLaine succeeds equally well as the seductress. Beautiful even in middle-age, she turns two potentially disastrous love scenes into touching monologues of vitality. No doubt the scene where MacLaine bares all for Gardiner--masturbates at his feet--will be criticized as too heavy-handed, akin to some of her brother Warren's shenanigans in Shampoo. But the scene is neither pornographic nor embarrassing and fits neatly and importantly into the narrative...