Word: mograbi
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...Learned to Overcome My Fear and Love Arik Sharon, a strange blend of fact and fiction, traces the odyssey of Avi Mograbi, a politically leftist filmmaker, as he attempts to document right-winger Ariel "Arik" Sharon during the 1996 Israeli election campaign. Mograbi intends to reveal a harsher side of the publicly charming Sharon. But Mograbi's plan unravels as he too is seduced by Sharon's charisma...
When Empress Waizeru Menen of Abyssinia (TIME, Oct. 9) walked into the Mograbi Opera House in Tel-Aviv to witness the performance of Rigoletto by the Palestine Opera Company, she was one and a half hours late and she did not "waddle like an ambulating lump of cocoa butter." Hindered on all sides by thousands who thronged the square in front of the building to see the modern Queen of Sheba, her walk, though slow and halting, was nonetheless queenly. Were she slimmer, eyes on Lenox Avenue would raise a notch as she passed...