Word: gypsum
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Shag, as Hanley calls the vast oven of interior Somaliland, one found the usual physical torments: heat, flies, the lack of fresh food and cold beer. Drinking from bitter desert water holes led to "Wajir clap," an excruciating urinary-tract disorder caused by sharp crystals of undissolvable mica and gypsum. Prickly heat could make a man rub himself raw against a wall, al though some relief could be had by spraying from head to toe with...
...leisurely drive to Phoenix to meet her boss (Rod Taylor), who also seems to be her lover. These ambiguities remain unresolved and irrelevant; what matters is that boy and girl meet, love and copulate in the desert, accompanied by 35 couples (and two triples), who writhe in the gypsum in awful parodies of sexual ecstasy. "I always knew it would be like this," sighs a sated Mark as he and Daria gaze at postcoital desert vistas before going their separate ways. Each has profoundly affected the other, of course. Mark flies back to L.A. to return the plane. Daria, hearing...