Word: harem
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...some remarkably shoddy ingredients. Unlike Igor, Kismet's big assist comes from Minsky rather than Rimsky. With the vigorous cootch dance that shocked Elinor Hughes on opening night, bare-tummied slave girls paraded "for sale or for rent," and a number of jokes like, "Call me in the harem; I'll be lying down there," Kismet is often indistinguishable from Harem Nights at the Old Howard. Further debits are abominable lyrics ("We'll coo adicu without undue ado"), a script short on humor of any kind, and except for a rather striking bridal procession, elementary and often drab settings...
...Harem-Scarem. In Indianapolis, Truck Driver George D. Lewis was arrested after Mrs. Ellouise Lewis and Mrs. Mildred Laverne Lewis announced that he not only married them both, but insisted that they live together after they found out about...
...simpler Macfadden tenets included the harem skirt, grass-eating, boxing with the feet, having babies without doctors standing on your head to make your hair grow." But all these techniques were useless unless the patient practiced the Master's main belief-"that . . . there is but one disease: impurity of the blood" for which there was but one cure-to stop eating and give the famished body a chance to consume its own diseased tissues. Not that the Master objected to patients purchasing his "Isham's California Waters of Life" for "dissolving and washing away cancer, and curing paralysis...
...pity that she writes pages of nonsensical epitaphs over her bleeding targets. The chip on her shoulder makes her believe that every man is as autocratic as a Turk and every female as malleable as a slave. Many of her protestations would strike even the inmates of a harem as being behind the times...
...result, murkily photographed in a process called Exotic Color, is a harem-scarum movie featuring girls in Arabian nighties, goats-milk baths, and raids on caravans laden with gold. The dialogue seems more Hollywood than Bagdad. Sample: "Sire, I have uncovered such crimes as will tear this town wide open...