Word: sultans
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Most of the selections by poets Richard Eberhart and Stephen Sandy are disappointingly shallow and listless, with the exception of Sandy's comic verses entitled "The Sultan Wears a Crimson Turban." John Allman's poem, full of mellow nostalgia for "childhood and the family," get ponderously explicit in spots...
...profit repeatedly flesh out their meager evidence of it by ogling puberty rites and bare-breasted concubines. Footage of a strip show in Beirut brings on a French tootsie who casts a hard eye at the camera and says she will gladly trade off her pasties to any sheik, sultan or oil-rich daddy who can meet the cover charge. This may be slavery, but most of the civilized world has another name...
...later still, he is hanging head down in a high vaulted chamber. Thirty feet below him lies a large glass case. In the case a dagger is displayed. And in the handle of the dagger glitter four of the finest emeralds ever mined, each one of them worth a sultan's ransom...
There was once a sultan with a harem of jealous wives. Being a wise man, the sultan secretly gave to each wife a blue bead. When they sought proof of his affection, he would say, "I love the one who has the blue bead." Thus he was able to live happily ever after...
...nations squared off against 29 industrialized nations, which had been shotgunned into the meeting in the first place. At issue was how to improve the poorer nations' dwindling share of world trade. The underdeveloped bloc came up with a list of extravagant demands that would boggle even a sultan: preferential tariff treatment for their manufactured goods, abolition of all barriers against their raw material exports, high fixed commodity prices. Predictably, the wealthy nations...