Word: dervishness
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...moviegoer will soon know all about Khartoum. That's where the well-known dervish leader Sir Laurence Olivier and thousands of white-turbaned extras rode out of a Cinerama desert in 1885 and did in Her Majesty's General Charlton Heston (see CINEMA). The movie stops there, but the British did not. Thirteen years later, they recaptured the city and slaughtered 11,000 dervishes, including all known male descendants of the character Olivier portrays, the fierce prophet El Mahdi...
...Mike Nichols touch, always deft, daft and droll, flicks The Odd Couple along at a dervish's pace. But it is Neil Simon's comic freshness of vision that provides the inner momentum. Simon rarely tosses a line straight up in the air for an isolated gag; he hits it across a net of personal relationships so that a steady volley of wit builds up out of character and situation. Simon also knows how to prod a cliché off its bed of banality so that it walks toward the brink of logical absurdity. "Who'd send...
When it comes to creating the worlds of fantasy in which U.S. companies sell their products on TV, the Colgate-Palmolive Co. seems to hold the current lead. Hundreds of times a week its "White Tornado" whirls like a dervish across the nation's TV screens, and its "White Knight" charges about banishing dirt miraculously with a touch of his trusty lance. Colgate also has an Action "Giant" who reaches a muscular arm right out of the washing machine before awestruck housewives, most of whom are blissfully unaware of the Freudian predilections of Madison Avenue...
...Presidential Challenge Cup) only to find that Washington's 1961 International Horse Show had already been stolen by her sister-in-law, Ethel Skakel Kennedy, 32. Fifteen years and seven babies beyond the days when she was the scourge of the equestrian East, the dark-eyed, dervish-like wife of the Attorney General had at the last minute daringly borrowed riding ensemble and steed to enter the conformation hunters competition. But after skimming seven barriers with surprisingly unrusty gait, she clipped the top pole of the next one, saw her outsized derby sail across the ring and finished...
...simply "that woman." Two years ago the body of Atlanta's poor Miss Freedom (alias Miss Justice, Miss Equality and Miss Liberty) was found to be riddled with bullet holes. The winged female in Phoenix. Ariz, has also had a hard time. Known to some as the Whirling Dervish or Biddy, she has no official name, though she carries a torch and a wreath, wears swirling classical robes. Riflemen have at one time or another shot off the wreath in one hand, the torch in her other, and part of her left...