Word: harems
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...free to turn this biopic into a minstrel show of atrocity. Amin struts across his domain like Kong with a salad of Day-Glo medals pinned to his chest. Amin expels Asian workers from Uganda and distributes the spoils to his private army of hitmen. Amin services an interracial harem. Amin juggles the lives of Arab radicals and Jewish captives at Entebbe airport. Amin eats the flesh of an honest judge he has ordered killed. Perhaps Patel too lovingly details the baroque torture, and Joseph Olita's unsteady command of the acting craft often makes Amin seem too cuddly...
...aesthetics and the psychology of ghostly doubles tugs beneath the surface of Shots. From a Refugee's Notebook focuses on a Sigmund Freud who dreams of becoming a god, and then shifts to a science-fiction planet where a community of female dialecticians known as the Sewing Harem is the source of a society's rise and fall...
Last spring, Kamali's sweat cloths, transformed into 35 items from miniskirts to harem pants, arrived in U.S. stores. She had taken that dull, cotton fleece, a staple of Army-Navy stores, and turned it into a line of casual haute couture outfits that could be worn to offices or parties...
...than $10 million in the U.S. and eight other countries. Next year, sales could soar to $24 million. Variety may be one of the answers. No longer just humble gray, the sweats now come in stripes and seven colors. There are short cheerleader-type rah-rah dresses and skirts, harem pants, saucy knickers, long bomber jackets, and oversized sweatshirts to be worn over tights as minidresses or as tunics with pants. For fall Kamali has added bright, bold, billowing flannel jumpsuits and-shades of 7 Love Lucy-Fred Mertz pants with shoulder straps and Ethel Mertz wrap dresses...
...SIGN ON the bus featured a stupid-looking Ryan O'Neal standing amidst a harem of bare-assed beauties. Actually they weren't exactly bare-assed; it's just that their ultra-tight blue jeans had plastic windows where the pockets should have been. "So Fine: a revealing comedy," it read. "Coming soon to a theater near you." "So bad," I thought, and continued to fight my way across Mass...