Word: casablanca
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Marlon Brando in Casablanca...
...Khark 5, en route from the Persian Gulf, had been steaming toward Rotterdam when the blast crippled her in rough seas some 100 miles northwest of Casablanca. The cause of the explosion remained unknown last week, although Iranian Oil Minister Gholamreza Aqazadeh attributed the blast to the rupture of one of the ship's storage tanks during a storm...
...Rose (1983). Unlike its predecessor, Foucault's Pendulum does not restrict its range of interests to monastic, medieval arcana. This time Eco's framework is vast -- capacious enough to embrace reams of ancient, abstruse writings and a host of contemporary references or allusions. The latter include the Yellow Submarine, Casablanca, Tom and Jerry, Lina Wertmuller, Barbara Cartland, Stephen King, Superman, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Flash Gordon, the Pink Panther, Minnie Mouse and Hellzapoppin. What do all of these things have to do with one another? Eco's teasing answer: maybe everything, maybe nothing...
Some of the quotes on which the authors cast aspersion are phrases that everyone knows to be inaccurate. Any one who thinks that Humphrey Bogart really said "Play It Again Sam" hasn't seen Casablanca. If you think the Bible is the home of the maxim "God helps those who help themselves," then God help...
...they discover they have a lot in common. They both love Casablanca. They both have recently ended long-term relationships. They are both miserable...