Word: arabian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...survive, only to be captured on an Arabian shore. Just as we expect to see Bogart face the firing squad, we find him sitting on a couch with the Arab leader, who asks, "Tell me more about Rita Hayworth...
That exchange was not only possible but commonplace last week in Manhattan, as more and more New Yorkers were discovering 29th Street and Eighth Avenue, where half a dozen small nightclubs with names like Arabian Nights, Grecian Palace and Egyptian Gardens are the American inpost of belly dancing. Several more will open soon. Their burgeoning popularity may be a result of the closing of the 52nd Street burlesque joints, but curiously enough their atmosphere is almost always familial-neighborhood saloons with a bit of epidermis...
Furiously, gallantly and without illusions, the baroness has long been at work on a projected 2,000-page Arabian Nights fantasia of a novel to be called Albondocani: "I hope to finish it just before I die, but only just" Recalling the meaning of her name, Isak Dinesen feels she has had the gift of laughter, and something more, "the pure joy of living, a sort of triumph simply because one exists." For the rest, she is content to quote the poet Landor...
...holding elections. But if the shake-up had a political lesson to offer, it was rather that austerity does not go down well with the princes of Saudi Arabia-especially in a year when oil revenues are expected to rise from $304 million to $320 million. Sighed one Arabian merchant happily: "The King of baksheesh is back on his throne...
...thermos bottles. Others line up at the office water-coolers with the chalky powder* and mix their lunch in a paper cup. Drugstores serve the stuff across the soda fountains, and manufacturers are even shipping it ready-mixed in handy cans. Metrecal distributors have filled orders from Saudi Arabian royalty and the King of Greece. The well-heeled businessmen who dine at Denver's Twenty-Six Club drink it; so do the spring-training players of the Birmingham Barons. Food Editor Marjorie Barrett of Denver's Rocky Mountain News wrote about her Metrecal diet, soon became the spiritual...