Word: egyptians
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...disgusting parts, let's just say that the third page contains a catalogue of the enemy soldiers' penises that were sent to the Egyptian Pharaoh in 1300 B.C.--and that's far from the worst item Zacks has dug up. Bestiality, severed and bloated genitalia, rape, child molestation and other delicacies figure prominently. If you're squeamish, avoid the description of the (unsuccessful) penis-enlarging lotion...
...rare moments, the book is even fascinating. The love letters of Marx, Napoleon and Poe, as well as Flaubert's descriptions of Egyptian dancing girls, are worth reading even beyond their titillation value. The excerpts from Walt Whitman's diary, in which he berates himself for his homosexual longings--"Depress the adhesive [i.e. homosexual] nature/It is in excess, making life a torment/all this diseased, feverish disproportionate adhesiveness..."--are almost as beautiful as his poetry...
...copper hair. Her head and ravishingly long neck float against the shadowy depths of a black background. Beneath her neck, a small rectangle suggests her shirt collar. Her face is sensuously smudged, unlike Warhol's perfect "Marilyn." Lushly foliated, she is as static as a figure on an ancient Egyptian coffin...
...those bootleg tapes made it into my eleventh-grade hands several years ago. Through the tape, I made the acquaintance of such colorful personas as Frank Rizzo, Al Justice, Tarbash the Egyptian Magician and the now-notorious `auto mechanic.' The Jerky Boys, posing as a variety of abrasive or downright bizarre characters, have made almost 100 calls to businesses in the northeast United States and beyond...
What really brought the four together, however, was a sense of desperation. Something was needed, as Egyptian Foreign Minister Amr Moussa put it, ``to save the peace process from collapse.'' If all that was required were the serious talk and earnest pledges of the summiteers, a comprehensive peace in the Middle East would be at hand. But after five hours of discussion, Moussa emerged to read out a predictable communique. It mainly restated their commitment to peace and condemned ``all the outbreaks of bloodshed, terror and violence'' that have brought the negotiations almost to a halt. The one visible...