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According to the legend, two brothers. Sharyar and Shah Zaman, who reign over adjoining kingdoms, discover their wives infidelity and vow that, in retaliation, each will rape a virgin every night and have her killed in the morning. Sharyar's kingdom soon deteriorates as parents flee the country with their daughters. At last, Scheherazade, a local visor's eldest daughter, announces to her father that she has a plan to end the King's murders and he, therefore, must present her to him that night as the virgin...
This violent solution is in marked opposition with the other ending that is offered. Doony is stopped by her husband Shah Zaman when he sincerely confesses that he had actually never killed all the virgins. The virgin who visited him the first night showed him the foolishness of the vow and set up a society of women to which he could send them while it would appear as if he was murdering them. "After all, none would choose death over emigration," she said. This scene is beautifully acted by Giroux and McDonough, as The Woman and Shah Zaman, who athletically...
...Moderator Ford declared, "Such an immediate resupply [of Syria] would indicate to me that [the Soviets] were a willing and active participant in the arms race." Another speaker compared the Soviets in the Middle East to "someone who can't say no but claims to be a virgin...
...Lincoln was portrayed in 1963 as the epitome of individualism; and the legacy of Franklin Roosevelt was traced last year. Only three religious leaders have been reassayed: St. Paul (1960), the Buddha (1964) and Martin Luther in 1967 and again last month in international editions. (Jesus Christ and the Virgin Mary are our most frequent historical cover figures, but they have not been specifically the subjects of the accompanying stories.) Karl Marx was reassessed in 1948, Vladimir Lenin in 1964 and their ideological opposites Adam Smith, in 1975, and John Maynard Keynes, in 1965. In the arts, William Shakespeare...
Among the most memorable short-lived "classics" to hit box offices in recent memory are The East American Virgin (lots of bodies, lots of sap), class (lots of Jacqueline Bisset, more sap), and Private Lessons (more of the same, minus Jacqueline Bisset). As long as teenagers continue demand a peek at what lies beyond the locker room producers will continue to churn out such films en masse, with more regard for profits than artistic quality...