Word: harems
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...stipends of as much as $35,000 each, and visiting scholars were boarded in luxury at the Santa Barbara Biltmore. Says Senior Fellow Dr. Alex Comfort, author of The Joy of Sex, "Hutchins may have set out to study democratic institutions, but he ran this place like a Byzantine harem...
...audience, and the way the slinky soprano voice wooed the ears as much as the lithe body invited the eyes. By 1927 she had received an estimated 40,000 love letters and 1,192 proposals of marriage, one from a rajah who offered to get rid of his harem. Acting on the theory that the show never ended, Baker could be seen regularly strolling down the Champs-Elysees with two leopards or a pair of swans on a leash. Gradually she found France more congenial and became a citizen in 1937, eventually buying a medieval chateau in the Dordogne Valley...
...Fellini's large doses of insanity. Uncle Teo climbs a tree and refuses to come down until ordered to do so by a midget nun who will have none of his nonsense. A peddler claims that one night a diminutive arab sheik checked into the grand hotel with his harem and invited him up for a tiring evening. Even the priests are allowed to join Fellini's beatific vision. Foolish as the churchmen are, Aurelio's termagant wife turns out to be the genuine image of sainthood...
...sopranos, then sat back and urged her sister to sing something from Call Me Madam. Lee now recalls that Jackie played a similar trick on her a decade later. During a 1963 trip to Morocco, while Lee and First Lady Jackie Kennedy were waiting with the King's harem to meet the monarch, Jackie boasted about her sister's lovely singing voice, then forced her to sing In an Old Dutch Garden. Ah, pre-Camelot revisited...
Most people either had no preference or asked to live in a coed dorm. Some men, perhaps in an effort to materialize dreams of playing shiek to a surrounding harem, requested to live in all female entries. Tough luck, buddy...