Word: harems
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...sees in a pretty nurse (Claudia Cardinale) the symbol of purity and later recalls his childhood in a Catholic school, where he was seduced by a middle-aged crone. Mastroianni in Oedipal embrace with his mother is followed by Mastroianni in a harem being lovingly bathed in a vat by all the women in his life. Finally, Mastroianni has a vision that the film he wants to do is about the people he knows, not his fantasies. He dances in a happy ring with his actors and actresses...
...nearly drove them into the sea. When Krim declared the independence of the Riff and named himself sultan, Spain set up a puppet ruler of its own, the redoubtable Moroccan bandit Raisuli.* Krim promptly scattered another Spanish army, seized Raisuli and shut him up in a cave with his harem until he died...
...single sitting and then gulp down a pound of honey as a between-meals snack. He had three wives and 40 concubines, but in the last years of his life his potency declined, and he had unsuccessful recourse to rejuvenation treatments by a Swiss doctor. His luckless harem consoled itself with sorties into lesbianism and erotic gadgets sent from Japan. Like many Yemenites, Ahmad chewed qat, a narcotic shrub similar to marijuana, and switched to morphine in 1953-heroically breaking the habit six years later...
Died. Annaser Ledin Allah Ahmad, 66th Imam of Yemen, 71, revered as "The Big Turban" among his 5,000,000 subjects in Islam's most feudal state, a cunning caliph who for 13 years managed to hang onto his throne, his air-conditioned Cadillacs, and his 40-woman harem by beheading his foes (among the victims: five of his brothers) and by firmly resisting all thoughts of leading Yemen out of the Arabian night; in his palace...
...most excitement was caused by the waitresses. Their flowing harem pantaloons caught on chairs and customers; the snaps gave way, entangling legs, chairs and customers in a delicious fricassee...