Word: mediterraneans
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...thinks he doesn't love his wife. He knows he doesn't know his daughter. He wants to find his identity again. So he dumps his woman, takes his kid and heads for the Mediterranean homeland of his fathers. Along the way, he picks up an oversized wanderer named Aretha (Susan Sarandon) whose greatest claim is her ability to sing Jewish folk songs in both Hebrew and Greek. By the end of his 18-month trek, and Mazursky's film. Phillip seemingly reclaims himself. Alas, he does so by means unrevealed to the movie's audience, who watch him sitting...
...Kennedy had long since reached the conclusion that the outmoded and vulnerable missiles in Turkey should be withdrawn. In the spring of 1961 Secretary Rusk had begun the necessary discussions with high Turkish officials. These officials asked for delay, at least until Polaris submarines could be deployed in the Mediterranean. While the matter was not pressed to a conclusion in the following year and a half, the missile crisis itself reinforced the President's convictions. It was entirely right that the Soviet government should understand this reality...
...exodus was complete, more than 11,000 Palestinians had been evacuated from Lebanon, and 3,625 Syrian soldiers had been moved by convoy from West Beirut to the Bekaa Valley in eastern Lebanon. When U.S. Marine headquarters in Beirut was informed on Wednesday that the last chartered ship, the Mediterranean Sun, had received clearance from the Israeli navy to sail for the Syrian port of Tartus with 700 Palestinians, the Marine operator replied, "O.K., well done. Now let's go home." That afternoon U.S. Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger announced in Beirut that the Marines would be leaving the Lebanese...
...Angeles and San Francisco with a bizarre array of ailments. Some had Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia, a deadly disease rarely seen except in drug-weakened cancer and transplant patients. Others bore the purplish skin lesions of Kaposi's sarcoma, a cancer that is usually confined to elderly men of Mediterranean extraction and young males in Equatorial Africa. Still others had developed strange fungal infections or other rare cancers. All had one thing in common: an immune system so severely impaired that they were living playgrounds for infectious agents. As soon as one bug could be brought under control, these patients...
...cannot remember how he got there or much of anything else. Two women are watching him, and from them he learns his name: Miles Green. He begins to dislike the observer who calls herself his wife and feels relieved when she goes away. The attractive doctor with the strangely Mediterranean cast to her features stays and summons an equally appealing West Indian nurse. Before long, Miles realizes that his condition is going to be treated in an unusual fashion. Ordering him to fondle her breasts, the doctor says: "I have a perfectly ordinary female body. Shut your eyes...