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Beyond the Great Wall. During the Han Dynasty, there lived an Emperor named Yuan Ti with a harem as big as all the Playboy clubs. He tried manfully to give all his wives the personal touch, but there were so many he never got around to meeting them all. To remedy the situation, his highness had a court painter limn pictures of the girls, then present the likenesses to him. Those that passed the silk-screen test got to play the palace...
...previous Bond films have so far grossed $125 million with a surefire combination of ingredients: You Only Live Twice is the mixture as before. As always, Bond is surrounded by a scare'em harem, this time peach-skinned, almond-eyed Japanese dishes. There is the mandatory hardware and gadgetry show, featuring a mini-helicopter equipped with such optional extras as flamethrowers and air-to-air missiles. There is the ultimate confrontation with the Evil Genius, represented by Ernst Stavro Blofeld (Donald Pleasance), an asexual monster with shaved head, hideous scar and foreign accent...
Once called "the harem king" by Nasser, Saud now has an entourage of only 40 members, including the four wives permitted by Moslem law and four concubines. He brought 32 limousines and sports cars with him when he moved from Athens to Egypt. As the price of his entry into Egypt Saud reportedly had to pay $5,000,000 into Nasser's treasury. For months, he and his retinue occupied two floors in Shepheard's Hotel, where he nightly entertained guests in the "Scheherazade Salon." Now Nasser has provided him with a suburban Cairo palace that once belonged...
Even when he reached his 80s, and his failing strength kept him from large canvases, he continued his search for linear grace in watercolor. For one of his last works, Ingres returned to a favorite subject, a harem nude. His earlier versions had shown her against a background of bathing slave girls; his final version simplified the scene to what it had actually been, a studio pose. And though rendered in watercolor-a lesser medium than oil-The Bather is, if anything, finer than his youthful version of some 60 years before. It was the final proof of his lifetime...
...Others contended that male deviates, living otherwise respectable lives, are liable to blackmail and are often driven to suicide because of the criminal stigma. Abse also pointed out that "to send homosexuals to overcrowded, hermetically sealed male prisons is as therapeutically useless as incarcerating a sex maniac in a harem...