Word: harem
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...laborious croak and articulating grimaces of a man who has never heard his own voice. In the girl's part, Piper Laurie showed again, as she did in an uneven Playhouse 90 show last season, that Hollywood has wasted a first-rate actress as a B-picture harem houri. The Deaf Heart belongs to the handful of TV dramas that deserve to be repeated. Beyond that it holds added promise: it is the first solo effort on commercial TV by Chicago-born Mayo Simon, 29. He is a welcome addition to the depleted company of talented television playwrights...
...doubtless blossom into an intimate family affair, he also assures them: "How could I love one of you more than another?" His first objective is the widow Agatha, and she is more than willing. Naturally, Pia grows annoyed, so Angelo appeases her by enrolling her in his quaint little harem. Next: the girl Sylvia. The three raging libidos soon turn their energies to jealousy, then hate, and finally, Angelo's comeuppance...
...sophisticated corporal's many-sided marital problem. By her fifth month of pregnancy, Ilouhi is obliged, under the strict tribal law, to find her husband a second wife. Rene protests the bigamy: "To carry out my mission would I have to become . . . lord and master of a harem?" But Ilouhi finds him Crey the Bahnar huntress, a wild creature from the inner jungle. With the appearance of Crey, Riesen is surprised to discover in the de voted Ilouhi "that boundless distress which is as old as the world itself." A new relationship develops in which Rene finds that Ilouhi...
Silverstein has apparently spared no expense in achieving a stunning and fast-paced audio-visual spectacle, such as delighted the court of Louis XIV for whom it was created. Not only do we have live musicians, but we also have livestock, not to mention a whole harem of scantily clad Turkish dancers. And it would be hard to imagine a more lavish set of costumes than William D. Roberts has designed...
Hearing of the cows to be found, more Puritans came from Europe, not all sparse of speech and life like the first. In South Boston, Thomas Morton came and shortly gathered up a harem of Indian women and a band of raffish followers. "They also set up a May-pole," says William Bradford, "drinking and dancing about it many days together, inviting the Indian women for their consorts, dancing and frisking together (like so many fairies, or furies rather) and worse practices." Morton was finally exported at twelve shillings cost, which was divided among Boston's citizens...