They launch a seemingly innocent line-up of programs for women. "In the neighborhood of two billion dollars per year, my lord."įlorence is cleverly assisted by sheika Laila and an unlikely crew, studded with a cast of characters that are somehow as original as they are stereotypical: the "Black Beret" body guard, a gay desk-jockey and former colleague at the State Dept., and a mercenary, high-powered international lobbyist, "who was acknowledged by even his most grudging peers to be the capital’s premier champion of causes so devoid of hope, so lacking in integrity, there was a kind of gallantry to it that aspired to a level of grandeur." "How do you mean ‘vast’? The desert is vast. Florence tries to show him projected advertising revenue. In Matar, she seeks an audience with the Emir, Gazzir Bin Haz (Gazzy to his friends) to bribe his consent to have his only wife (a half-British former London television personality who negotiated a shrewd pre-nuptial agreement) to help her set up a new satellite television station targeted at women. She goes directly to the fictional country of Matar ("the Switzerland of the Persian Gulf" enriched by "Infidel Land" gambling and access rights to the pipeline running through it to the gulf from the adjacent fictional county, the much more extreme, Wasabia, the "Middle East's preeminent no-fun zone"). Scoffed at and forced to resign at State, Florence is then approached, recruited and secretly funded by the mysterious "Uncle Sam" who appears to know all about her proposal but will not even tell her which government agency he works for finds herself off to the Persian Gulf. "I’m just trying to think outside the box." that she has gone over his head to the Secretary of State with her plan: " Female Emancipation As A Means of Achieving Long Term Stability In the Near East: An Operational Proposal," … and explains : Outraged by the execution of an Arab friend who had tried to escape her husband and seek asylum while in Washington, DC but was then forced home to her fate, Florence Farfaletti has a brainstorm. Over to read a review of Supreme Courtship)
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