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Waller's neighbor, Joseph P. Weidle '99, lives in a less shocking but equally impressive version of the libido lair. Again, the bed is the centerpiece of the room, but here the pallet conjures up the aura of an Arabian harem. Paisley print canopies billow across the bed frame and ceiling, dimming the light to a romantic incandescence. Lava lamps rest mounted from the bed frame and a teddy bear reclines near the pillows while the ubiquitous mirror paneling covers the adjacent walls. "It's so comfortable, I can't get out of bed," Weidle comments...
...year for committing a lewd act in a public rest room. The video for the song Outside, which MTV plans to debut this Wednesday, features a public bathroom morphing into a disco as Michael, dressed as a policeman, sings of the pleasures of alfresco sex while dancing with a harem of underattired women. The video was shot 15 miles from the Beverly Hills, Calif., park where the singer was arrested last April. It seems the judge who sentenced him possessed a slightly less evolved sense of humor and prohibited Michael from ever returning to the scene of the crime...
...past year Heche and DeGeneres have lived together in Los Angeles' old-moneyed Hancock Park, in a remodeled Spanish manse featuring a harem-inspired video room and a mammoth shower with their initials--A and E--intertwined in tile. While the town's tongues wagged last year, they decorated. "We looked at fabrics instead of tabloids," jokes Heche. "It's been an odd year. It has played itself out in every way--negative, positive, people supportive, people bitter--but we never wavered in our love...
That assessment was already looking generous by the weekend, as Americans resigned themselves to turning on the news or picking up their papers and having to read stories that painted the White House as a harem, the President as a lecher and the government as a hostage to his libido. No matter what he does, the President now faces a steady flow of ugly leaks from the conversations Tripp recorded or recalled having with Lewinsky. In those conversations, Lewinsky is graphic in detailing, and at times denigrating, the President's sexual characteristics and performance. Clinton, she claimed at one point...
...ancient China, imperial gratification was a tidier affair. An Emperor in the Chou dynasty had 37 wives and 81 concubines. Harem administrators kept track of menstrual cycles, scheduling sex at each woman's peak fertility...