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...pouted Egypt's best-known Little Egypt, Nahed Sabry. For three years, poor Nahed and the rest of the country's belly dancers had been all wrapped up by the government's distinctly un-Faroukian rules of decency, which flatly decreed costumes that "covered the chest, stomach and back and had no slits or openings on the sides or elsewhere." But now Mustafa Darweesh, the Ministry of Culture's chief censor, thinks he can stomach a more liberal code. "There is a new outlook everywhere in the field of art," he explained soberly. The outlook...
...book in question is U.S. Novelist Hubert Selby Jr.'s Last Exit to Brooklyn, a stomach-turning homosexual excursion, which the British government refused to act against on the theory that the book probably had literary merit. Balderdash, retorted Sir Cyril Black, a Conservative M.P., friend of Evangelist Billy Graham and watchdog of British public morals...
...life was a continuous obstacle course. His eyes failed him, he had facial neuralgia, arthritis of the back, sciatica. "My mouth is full of decayed teeth," he wrote, "and my soul of decayed ambitions." He was to die in 1941 from the hemorrhaging of a duodenal ulcer-his stomach pains had been diagnosed in Paris as due to nerves...
Senior Yoshiharu Akabane may not play tomorrow. Akabane, ranked eight last week, has been troubled by a stomach illness. "I don't think he'll be able to do himself justice," Barnaby says...
Having never won a national election in postwar Germany, the Social Democrats were becoming weary of their opposition role, and longed for a taste of power. The Christian Democrats, for their part, could not stomach another coalition with the Free Democrats who had brought down their government, and were glad of the chance to leave Erich Mende out in the cold...