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...Arab as Exotic Lover. Immortalized as The Sheik (1921), Rudolph Valentino once owned the franchise on faux Semitic Romeos. The nobly savage Italian actor and a host of imitators swept a generation of European love interests into their arms -- the ladies' honor often preserved by eleventh- hour plot devices (in the case of The Sheik, Valentino's character was revealed to be an Englishman in Middle Eastern drag). More recently, crudely comic variations on this theme have had Western women fending off oversexed petrosheiks in films like Protocol (1984) and The Jewel of the Nile...
Lukashenko's temerity paid off handsomely. Last week he swept up a smashing 80% of the vote to become the first elected President of this Kansas-size country sandwiched between Poland and Russia. Key to his victory was a program of reform that would have been unthinkable three years ago, when Belarus was sprinting off in the direction of independence. Instead of turning his back on Moscow, as most in the former Soviet Union did in 1991, Lukashenko proposed that salvation lay in closer links with Russia...
...Ocmulgee rivers, bringing on a wave of tragedies. In the town of Americus, where 21 inches of rain fell within 24 hours, 16 people perished. Georgians will not soon forget the images of a young Americus woman screaming as the waters of Town Creek engulfed her car and swept her and her baby downstream. Or of dozens of coffins from Albany cemeteries bobbing in the clay-stained waters that washed through city streets. Or of the foul smell that permeated rural Macon County for days after 250,000 chickens drowned, forcing National Guardsmen to don masks to pick...
...Dior's A-line dress has swept Europe and the United States, charm bracelets are in and the precursor to the pill box hat Jackie Kennedy Onuses made so famous is smaller here and squatter. Manners reign supreme and the neuroses Arthur Miller wrote about are running rampant, but have not been made into pop psychology yet. It is the years when the stream-lined apple-green kitchens appealed to the June Cleaver housewife, fully equipped with automatic dishwasher, garbage disposal and cabinets full of rum. Something eerie lurks behind the placidity of the 1950s setting and L.B. Jeffries...
...default. But there were few such areas, so many of the trapped fighters raced the fire up the mountain, hoping to get over and find shelter behind a ridge above them. It was an excruciating run, and not everyone made it to safety. When the fire, which had quickly swept from 50 acres to 2,000, subsided enough to let rescuers in, the bodies of four women and eight men were discovered, most of them just below the ridge. The bodies of two more men were found two days later. Among the 14 dead were Scott Blecha, Bonnie Jean Holtby...