Word: harems
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...best and funniest performances, and Laurette's barnstorming early appearances in all manner of creaking melodramas are made-to-order for Mary's comic talents. She plays a frontier mother rescuing her child from a grizzly bear, warbles a ditty from a torture wheel, and as a harem wife be wails...
...then only after he has bound and gagged her. But he heaps her with presents: expensive foods, dresses, a phonograph. When she asks for some perfume, he brings her 14 bottles. "It's like living in The Arabian Nights," Miranda muses in bewilderment. "Being the favorite in the harem. But the perfume you really want is freedom...
...extraordinary by comparison. For example, shots of middle-aged women trying desperately to lose weight in a Vic Tanny gymnasium are preceded by films of a New Guinea tribe where the prettiest women are shut in cages and fattened to 270 pounds, after which they join the headman's harem...
...play. Eager to have an audience with an elderly cardinal, Mastroianni is led, like a sheet-wrapped Dante, down into a fumy inferno where the cardinal is stewing his skinny bones in a steam bath. Then, in a dream, Mastroianni sees himself as the black-cloaked master of a harem surrounded by all the women of his life, who adoringly bathe him, dry him, and carry him to dinner wrapped in a blanket...
Says Malcolm Muggeridge: "There's always been a lot of high-grade whoring in this country," and there is a lot of past evidence to prove him right. George IV had his queen tried publicly for infidelity; in the early 18th century, an Archbishop of York maintained a harem at his palace. The 18th century Christine Keeler was a Miss Chudleigh, who had been the mistress of three peers when George II spotted her at a costume ball, cunningly disguised in a transparent gown. Her Georgian era came between two noble marriages (one bigamous). In the 18th century phrase...