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...created a jewel-encrusted oasis town in the southern deserts to stand as an "imitation of Paradise." Islam's holy Koran, which called the site Iram, evoked the grandeur of "lofty pillars, the like of which were not produced in ((all)) the land." This was also Islam's Sodom, however, a place that God destroyed because of its wickedness. Ever since, warns an Arabian saying, "anybody who finds Ubar will go crazy." And according to an Arabian Nights tale, "Allah blotted out the road that led to the city...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Archaeology: Arabia's Lost Sand Castle | 2/17/1992 | See Source »

...ubiquitous sex talk. If it's not born-again transsexuals with psoriasis on Oprah and Phil or the latest investigative expose of swimsuits on A Current Affair, it's the R-rated dishing and dissing on Studs, the syndicated hit that is to the old Dating Game what Sodom was to Sparta. Call them all dirtysomething...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Best of 1991: SHOW BUSINESS | 1/6/1992 | See Source »

...ubiquitous sex talk. If it's not born-again transsexuals with psoriasis on Oprah and Phil or the latest investigative expose of swimsuits on A Current Affair, it's the R-rated dishing and dissing on Studs, the syndicated hit that is to the old Dating Game what Sodom was to Sparta. Call them all dirtysomething...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Best of 1991 | 1/6/1992 | See Source »

Prosecutors may well get a jury to agree that some of the pictures by % Mapplethorpe, who died of AIDS last year, could offend people in Sodom, much less Cincinnati. The more complex question is whether such pictures can move people in other ways. The future of American art may depend on how the jury answers that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Keeping Cincinnati Clean | 10/8/1990 | See Source »

When you disagree with The Truth, you have to reckon with divine justice. Are you sexually attracted to people of your own gender? Remember Sodom and Gommorrah...

Author: By John L. Larew, | Title: No Mag Is an Island | 3/14/1990 | See Source »

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