Word: moorish
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...Modified Moorish. Songstress Valente first burst on the U.S. scene last winter with a brassy but strangely appealing version of Malagueña (Decca). Her high, uninhibited voice soared with the echoing strings, and the record became a hit (TIME, Feb. 7, 1955). Unfortunately, her only U.S. appearance at the time was a single shot on TV, and few admirers were able to find out just why the girl with an Italian name should be singing a Spanish song in German...
...search of the White Sheik to whom she has already written under the name of "Bamba Appassionata" (Passionate Doll). Somehow Wanda gets thrown into proximity with a secretary who advises her that "To dream is to live!", and then a moving van, and then many pseudo-Arabs and neo-Moorish hordes, and, finally, the White Sheik's own secluded sail boat. In her semi-conscious wake her distressed husband similarly encounters many adventures including the shower she had left running in making her get-away, an irate concierage, imperturbable relatives, and an Italian galloping trombone band...
...played by Brunella Boro, none of the people really are people. They are examples. The White Sheik himself (Alberto Sordi) combines aspects of Mario Lanza, Liberace, and Fernando Lamas in a gloriously dripping mixture. Wanda's husband is played, sometimes ferociously, sometimes stoically, by Leopoldo Triesti. Hordes of Moorish monsters also appear to attack the White Sheik along with relatives to attack Wanda's husband; and these creatures add motion to the commotion...
...cattle business started off with Christopher Columbus, who took hardy, long-horned Moorish stock from Spain's Andalusian plains and dropped them off in 1493 at Santo Domingo on his second voyage. From there they were taken to Mexico. Half a century later Coronado, bound north in search of the Seven Cities of Cibola, drove 500 head across the Rio Grande for food along the way. Some escaped, and the famed longhorn found a home in Texas...
...House. In London, Sybil Jeanne Hevetson, 61, won a divorce from her husband Cecil, 66, after testifying that he 1) considered himself "a pocket Hercules ... a warrior descended from the Moorish fighters'' but passed out after downing one gin sling; 2) wore khaki shorts and tied the house keys to his belt "to show that he was the master"; 3) penciled in the word "strumpet" when he spotted "wife" on a magazine cover...