Word: harem
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...devastatingly sensual works as My Mother's House and Cheri was a mentor to many but a horror to her own daughter. At great risk to her reputation, she performed half-naked on the stage and had open lesbian relationships, yet believed that feminists deserved "the whip and the harem." She found her most secure love with her third husband, Maurice Goudeket, a man 17 years her junior who was a Jew, yet she was an anti-Semite and in the Nazi-occupied France of World War II displayed what Thurman generously calls a "moral lethargy." At 47, she began...
...remember. Grandmaster Flash warned, "Don't touch me 'cause I'm close to the edge." Then there was Run-D.M.C. rocking the house, and the Beastie Boys hollering, "You gotta fight for your right--to party!" and Public Enemy saying, "Don't believe the hype," and Hammer's harem-style balloon pants. Then gangsta rap: N.W.A. rapping "F____ tha police"; Snoop drawling "187 on an undercover cop"; and Tupac crying, "Even as a crack fiend, mama/ You always was a black queen, mama." Then Mary J. Blige singing hip-hop soul; Guru and Digable Planets mixing rap with bebop...
Waller's neighbor, Joseph P. Weidle '99, lives in a less shocking but equally impressive version of the libido lair. Again, the bed is the centerpiece of the room, but here the pallet conjures up the aura of an Arabian harem. Paisley print canopies billow across the bed frame and ceiling, dimming the light to a romantic incandescence. Lava lamps rest mounted from the bed frame and a teddy bear reclines near the pillows while the ubiquitous mirror paneling covers the adjacent walls. "It's so comfortable, I can't get out of bed," Weidle comments...
...year for committing a lewd act in a public rest room. The video for the song Outside, which MTV plans to debut this Wednesday, features a public bathroom morphing into a disco as Michael, dressed as a policeman, sings of the pleasures of alfresco sex while dancing with a harem of underattired women. The video was shot 15 miles from the Beverly Hills, Calif., park where the singer was arrested last April. It seems the judge who sentenced him possessed a slightly less evolved sense of humor and prohibited Michael from ever returning to the scene of the crime...
...past year Heche and DeGeneres have lived together in Los Angeles' old-moneyed Hancock Park, in a remodeled Spanish manse featuring a harem-inspired video room and a mammoth shower with their initials--A and E--intertwined in tile. While the town's tongues wagged last year, they decorated. "We looked at fabrics instead of tabloids," jokes Heche. "It's been an odd year. It has played itself out in every way--negative, positive, people supportive, people bitter--but we never wavered in our love...