Word: queene
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...times--ancient Egypt is a land of many weird rites and customs, filled with magic, telepathy and violence. Menenhetet relates his odyssey from a Nile village to the Pharaoh's chariot in the glorious battle against the Hittites at Kadesh to the beds of the royal harem and the Queen from beyond the grave. He also prefaces the tale with a recasting of a number of stories from Egyptian mythology, a section which is by far the finest of the book. Surreal, unlabored and intriguing, it unfortunately scuds by quickly. Which leaves the rest of this endless book...
BORN. To Noor el Hussein, 31, American-born Queen of Jordan, and King Hussein, 47: their third child, first daughter; in Amman. Name: Iman (Arabic for faith...
...SOME SPINNERS of Harvard tales, sex is so cerebral that the act becomes almost unrecognized, submerged in a sea of ponderous figurative philosophizing. Pays Levine, the volcano queen, is one such scribe; another is George Anthony Weller '29, whose long novel Not to Eat, Not for Love appeared in 1933. At the end of the book, an undergraduate named Epes Todd goes all the way with a girl named Ellen in his Fine Arts tutor's apartment, but it requires a real piece of textual analysis to figure out what is going...
With a rosy flush of expectancy warming her cheeks, Queen Nur, 31, the American-born wife of Jordan's King Hussein, 47, has continued to fulfill her state commitments throughout the final six months of her pregnancy. The new royal baby, expected this week, will be the couple's third: they have two sons, Prince Hamzah, 3, and Prince Hashem, 22 months. Pregnancy, it appears, seems to suit the former Lisa Halaby almost as much as queenship does...
Worse yet, though, Fantasy often seems similar to 1950s game show like Queen for a Day and The Big Pay Off, where contestants would describe heart-wrenching difficulties and audience response would determine the one "winner". Although Fantasy, unlike Queen, doesn't offer cripples and widows, it nevertheless panders to Is viewers' perhaps unconscious voyeurism aren't we lucky we own tape recorder, and didn't one of the WWII nurse seem unhappy to see the others? Perhaps an explanation exists for the forty year separation other than lack of travel funds...