Word: nile
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Holy Moses, what an all-star cast that is in the upcoming Wholly Moses, a desanctified recast of the biblical story. The premise of the movie is that a second baby, Herschel, was set adrift on the Nile at the same time as Moses. Never mind the hieroglyphic plot; just consider a cast that includes John Houseman, Madeline Kahn, John Ritter, Laraine Newman, James Coco, Jack Gilford, Dom DeLuise and Jack Albertson, along with Richard Pryor in a robes-and-rigamarole cameo as the pharaoh who puts Herschel down. Pryor became ill on the set, and no wonder. Maybe even...
...Israelis jubilantly welcomed the establishment of ties. In fact, they have already found a future embassy site on the residential island of Zamalek in the Nile; Well aware that normalization is opposed by nearly the entire Arab world, the Egyptians seemed almost embarrassed by the proceedings. They have not yet begun to search for an embassy location in Tel Aviv. And, although the land border between the two countries is now officially open, the Egyptians intend to limit sharply the number of Israeli tourists allowed to drive to Cairo via Sinai...
...view was soothing and so was the 80° weather: the two men chatting together by the sun-drenched pool of Aswan's Oberoi Hotel on the Nile might have been old friends planning their next family vacation together. But the impression was deceptive. For Israel's Premier Menachem Begin and Egypt's President Anwar Sadat, the relaxed atmosphere at last week's summit could not conceal troublesome problems ahead in giving "momentum to the peace process," as Sadat put it. The two leaders agreed to establish formal relations between Egypt and Israel...