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...tumultuous meeting in Cairo last year, where Egyptian women confronted Libya's Muammar Gaddafi to rebut his arguments for political union between the two countries. If Gaddafi imposed his fundamentalist Islamic views on such a merger, they shouted scornfully, it would force them all back to the harem, and they refused...
...satirical article about him in Turin's La Stampa last month enraged him. "It seems," ran the mock-fan-magazine prose, "that he has an ulcer, it seems that he is a homosexual, that he sleeps on a mattress of tobacco leaves, that he has a harem of 48 wives in Switzerland." Libya immediately demanded that the article's coauthors be dismissed from La Stampa, one of Italy's most respected dailies...
...Kissinger, Willy Brandt and Nguyen Van Thieu, scored again with the revelation that the Shah is not, after all, a ladies' man. What prompted His Sublime Highness's anger, however, was something quite simple. Fallaci had asked him if it were true that he had reverted to harem, taking another wife in addition to his third official one, Empress Farah, 35. Said the Shah: "A stupid, vile, disgusting libel...
...show anywhere, but in Harlem ... well, it was show enough to make limousines full of people who rare? SSS(TM) K to Harlem pay as much as $100 each for the privilege. Of course every C note sung and spent went for a noble cause: the Dance Theater of Harem. Finally the whole stageful of illustrious benefactors was upstaged by the long-limbed benefactees. D.TH danc ers leaped and floated through tribal rituals and Balanchine abstractions Said Actor Brock Peters, board chairman of the four-year-old dance company: "This community still has a cultural life. We've never...
INTO THIS STREAM of Roman consciousness. Fellint deposits all his favorite imagery--sex and food and puffed-up preening, actors and actresses, whores and Catholics His young provincial gapes at a boarding house harem of freaks: a bloated beauty in raven locks, a garrulous has-been actor, and the lady of the house, a mound of spongy gray flesh-presiding over it all like some claphantine idol Fellini lingers nostalgically over the bizarre figures of his youth. The inevitable bulging whores strut before an ogling crowd; gesticulating Italians gorge themselves at a gala outdoor banquet. The bordellos, churches, and cafes...