Word: nubians
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...skin-flick that rarely makes it off the grind-house circuit. But this film is being released in the U.S. by Joseph E. Levine, a canny showman with a shrewd instinct for profitable exploitation. Five years ago, the only chained-up people in Levine movies were Mediterranean musclemen and Nubian slaves. From this standpoint at least, La Prisonnière marks a certain kind of progress...
...more than 15,000 of them, fresh out of school and impatient after long delays at the gates, tore the place apart. They smashed hatching quail eggs, hurled rocks at the ducks, dropped baby turtles on their backs, pounded away on the shell of the Aldabra tortoise. A Nubian goat bleated in agony as it was pulled from both ends. The baby elephant ran off in terror. A peacock, its tail feathers sore after having been yanked for hours, bit a four-year-old girl in the face. What the kids did not manhandle they made off with, including...
...valuable are Notre Dame's name and symbols that on occasion it has licensed Hollywood to use them at a tidy profit to itself. Twentieth Century-Fox, however, got no permission before plunging ahead with a film in which a befuddled Notre Dame football team is corrupted by Nubian dancers and walloped by treacherous Arabs coached by a Jewish U-2 pilot working for the CIA in a mythical Middle Eastern country. To the Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh, Notre Dame's president, whom the film depicts as "Father Ryan," there was only one answer: John Goldfarb, please...
Also appointed were Henry J. Irwin '60, of Washington, D.C., and now with the Nubian Expedition of the University of Colorado in Wadi Halfa, Sudan; Terence P. O'Brlen of Victoria, Australia--biology; and Steven Vogel of Beacon, N.Y.--biology...
...Nubian women seem happy about the move. Stone walls and concrete floors are a welcome change after a dusty lifetime of adobe and mud. Besides, there are movies, television, schools and clinics. As the Nubians file aboard the paddle steamer headed for Kom Ombo -loaded down with palm fiber beds, carved wooden chests, magical amulets, goats and sheep-they try to exorcise their grief of leave-taking by singing. One song runs: "The Nile is drowning Nubia and we must forget the past. The river brings life and the river brings. death...