Word: sheiks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Griffith provides some skillful comic relief as a sheik who is crazy over horses. But what matters most and comes off best in the picture is the great scenes of spectacle, particularly the chariot race, a superbly handled crescendo of violence that ranks as one of the finest action sequences ever shot. All by itself it would be worth the price of admission...
...leader, a swarthy professional assassin who has been killing for hire for more than 20 years. A shadowy Palestinian once employed by the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, Kassem's would-be killer, who is well known to the police, counts among his coups the shooting of an Arab sheik who had agreed to sell land to Jews and the murder of a British official on the steps of a church in Nazareth. Barred from several Arab countries including Iraq, he reportedly slipped in from Syria as scores of other terrorists have been doing in recent months, and just...
...Atlantic Coast east to the Red Sea. But even the French Community's half of the Sahara is awesome in size (1,600,000 sq. mi. v. 213,000 for France) and bewildering in its diversity. Barely a seventh of it is the movie desert of The Sheik-the vast expanses of sand wind-blown into golden dunes. The rest is mostly rock: gravelly plains, dry river beds, lunar landscapes whose peaks soar to 11,000 feet above sea level and depressions of 50 to 100 feet below sea level...
...theological split has long kept Shiite Iraq, Iran and Yemen apart from the rest of the Moslem world, which generally adheres to Sunnite doctrine. Last week Sheik Mahmoud Chaltout, 66, Nasser-appointed rector of Cairo's revered al-Azhar University (TIME, May 11), was dramatically pressing a drive to reconcile the two sects. Sheik Chaltout years ago began wooing ulamas (Koranic scholars) of both sides with learned societies and a liberal theological monthly that is still going strong. Striking now with Nasser's support at the very root of the schism-the university itself, which for centuries condemned...
...Real Fats Waller (Camden). The late master of the stride piano wheels exuberantly through some early classics (Carolina Shout), clowns it up in some typically hammy vocals ("I'm da Shook, da Shake, da Sheik from Araby"), and displays flashes of his more filigreed style in his own Ain't Misbehavin...