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After weeks of tabloid ballyhoo, curious patrons, including her Texas playboy husband Sheppard King, packed into a Miami Beach nightclub for the American premiere of Samia Gamal's torso-twisting harem dance. In bare feet, a gossamer pink skirt slit down the middle, gold tassels glittering round her bare midriff, Samia slithered through four minutes of her "real oriental art." Then she hurried to her dressing room for a Band-Aid for her big toe, which she had cut on the glass floor. Critical consensus: domestic burlesque is good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Prejudices & Propositions | 1/28/1952 | See Source »

...Ipoh, the airport was sealed off by 300 troops, while men of the 12th Lancers surrounded him in a body, led him to an armored car. "What, another one!" said Lyttelton, climbing aboard. "Close the hatch," said the officer in charge. Lyttelton saw the tin district through the eye-slit in the armor. In Kuala Lumpur, Lyttelton transferred to the bullet-proof automobile which had been brought from England, too late, for assassinated High Commissioner Sir Henry Gurney (TIME, Oct. 15). At Negri Sembilan he was presented with the red-starred khaki cap of a Communist shot five days before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Geranium Garden | 12/17/1951 | See Source »

...hero is a brilliant young British scholar who has pushed himself into a shaky state of nerves, and taken ship for an American teaching post. At first, John Divine relaxes. During a session of shuffleboard in a heavy sea, Divine's eye roves toward the scuppers and the slit of open space under the lifeboats. In that instant, he sees "a billowing of pink goods" slither over the side, and for "half an awful wink that pinkness seemed ... to have folds like legs and corners like tiny clutching hands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Reactionary Old Fogy | 12/10/1951 | See Source »

...talked against Mossadegh but abstained from voting against him, was mobbed outside. The crowd tried to beat him up, overturn his car; police rescued him. As Mossadegh himself emerged, an old merchant named Haji Mohammed Ali Aymaktchi lay down near his car, announced that he was going to slit his own throat as a human sacrifice to the great Mossadegh. Haji was led away, protesting at the lack of patriotic feeling in the police...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IRAN: Hero's Return | 12/3/1951 | See Source »

...ladies there is, for instance, the medieval equivalent of the cold shower: the feel of icy armor against warm bosom. For the men there are the more elaborate pleasures of the fray, such as "The Red Eagle": a pet Norse revenge, in which a man's belly is slit from side to side, and his lungs hauled out through the opening. Otherwise, it is the story of a Danish slave boy, Ogier, who wins his freedom and roves with the Viking freebooters from Iceland to Italy. In the end, he marries a princess and sails with her to discover...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fall Foliage | 11/5/1951 | See Source »

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