Word: seraglio
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...glittering beads for a Los Angeles discount house. She also works for Aqua Velva. Joseph Cotten discusses the miracle of Bufferin, and so does Arlene Francis, for which each was paid $50,000. Imogene Coca appears for Armstrong Cork. Louis Jourdan, surprisingly, appears for Prell Shampoo. The Lustre-Creme seraglio has included Jill St. John, Juliet Prowse, Jeanne Crain, Jane Powell, Sandra Dee and Stella Stevens...
...bungles a CIA mission over the U.S.S.R. and bails out in the kingdom ruled by Fawz (Peter Ustinov), a peeved potentate whose son failed to make the Notre Dame varsity. Shirley MacLaine just happens to be at hand as a reporter getting a picture-magazine scoop inside the seraglio. The vengeful Fawz fields a football team of his own and blackmails Goldfarb into coaching it. An eager U.S. State Department sends the Irish to the Middle East, where they are wined, dined, wiggled at, and ultimately defeated (34-29) by the burnoosed bandits of Fawz...
...Field's "Seraglio" isn't particularly good, but it's fun to read. Even when the narrator gets morassed in Truth, the prose is crisp: "my reason had long since flown the strict cage of its criteria." And though the connection between the incidents is obscure, they are strikingly recounted...
Some dyspeptic Iroquois brave named it "Se-rach-to-que," which has been translated as "Floating Scum upon the Water." Among dip-minded suburban housewives it enjoys minor fame as the birthplace of the potato chip. James Gordon Bennett was moved to entitle it "the seraglio of the prurient aristocracy." To the rheumy rich of the '90s it was "The Spa," and its eggy sulphur waters were just the ticket for constipation and gout. But now the seltzer baths belong to the state, and for eleven months out of the year Saratoga Springs (pop. 16,000) is a quiet...
...michievous Sultan (played to perfection by an appropriately ponderous Ezio Flagello) imprisons Jack in order to keep an excellent organ player. A Venetian damsel in distress named Dorina (actually not in a dress at all, but disguised as a janissary, afraid of the tortures of the Sultan's seraglio, joins Wilton and begs him to help her escape. Jack promises the Sultan to turn Dorina-in-disguise into a musician better than himself within one month, if the Sultan will promise freedom. The Sultan agrees. And so it goes...