Word: egyptians
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...scenes is that of inaction, waiting, even boredom, and in this they were perfectly true to the social world they addressed, since most of the life of a girl in a maison close was taken up with sitting around. The tedium of the big-city seraglio becomes monumental, almost Egyptian, with In the Salon at the Rue des Moulins, circa...
Watch the singers. Drink the champagne. Look around you. People from all around the world are here-American bankers, exiled Iranian royalty, sleek Egyptian beauties, dark-haired Italians in Armani suits, mignone French women. You have gained access to all the excitment of Parisian night life...
Tired of the museums? Stop in at just one more, the Brooks Art Gallery in Midtown, on your way to the Memphis Zoo. Enter through a very ostentatious, very Egyptian entrance gate and spend the day gawking at animals...
Throughout his lecture--a revisionist version of history that attributed virtually every success of modern society to the ancient Egyptian civilization of the Nile--Jeffries denied charges that he is a bigot, at one point citing his presidency of a Jewish fraternity while in college as evidence...
...lifetime in international affairs as a professor, politician and diplomat. When he was named Secretary-General last November, however, it was not so much because of his experience in the world arena as because the Africans insisted it was their turn for leadership of the U.N. As an Egyptian, Boutros-Ghali was on their list of six acceptable candidates, even though he is a highly Europeanized Christian Arab. The Security Council, bowing to the Africans' demand, chose...