Word: harems
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...draw, with Tom reciting Chairman Mao's aphorisms (they sound like the text of a self-help book to him), his tormentors marching into battle singing the Washington State fight song (which sounds martial to them). Beth is abducted by a mad CIA operative and offered as harem material to the nearest warlord- opium smuggler-defender of democracy. But Lawrence has time to save Tom's soul and Beth's body, open a nightclub, direct the hearts and minds of the natives as they build a bridge they do not need and teach them how to play New England baseball...
...social positions. The lowers' attempts at reunion, simply put make up the rest of the plot, carrying Candide from war, to the wrath of the Inquisition, the New World of South America, and taking Cunegonde from her sedate home-life t, the life of an exotic whore, to a harem. Leaving the intricacies of the plot to the audience and to the realm of fantasy, the overall consistency of performances commands much respect Meredith's Candide is amazingly native up until the very end; his magnificant tenor voice as beautiful during his melancholy solo. "It Must...
...from Yiddish to English. But recently the novelist has professed "great compassion" for the workers he once abused. "Since every language contains its own unique truths," he now believes, "translation is the very spirit of civilization." Then he adds, "In my younger days I used to dream about a harem full of women; lately I'm dreaming of a harem full of translators." -By Patricia Blake
...right or not, whether the reality of life in the Islamic world was more fanciful than its images in 19th century art, there could be no doubt that the popular pictures of the day exuded a fictive sensuality: the odalisque, her breasts exposed, her belly barely covered by harem trousers, lounging on a divan as she awaited a pasha's pleasure; swarthy eunuchs, armed with saber and musket, standing guard at the seraglio gates; the almah, or Egyptian dancing girl, clapping her castanets as she strips off her veils; the nubile concubine displaying her roseate flesh in a Turkish...
Sherry goes to Sharyar's harem and begs him to allow Doony to accompany her, as they have not been separated from birth. At a tense moment in the long night Doony asks Sherry to tell one of her wonderful stories. By morning the story is still unfinished, so the king stays her execution until he can hear the end. This same procedure is repeated for 1001 nights with Doony sitting at the foot...