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Sirocco is a dining place on top of State Tower, one of the tallest skyscrapers in Thailand.
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-- The favourable wind gets back to its quarters in the south-west, and becomes what the Italians call the Sirocco, abominated for its debilitating qualities.
The Journal of Sir Walter Scott From the Original Manuscript at Abbotsford Walter Scott 1801
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In the 12-week placebo-controlled study, known as the Sirocco trial, neither the active comparator donepezil nor AZD3480 met the trial's criteria for statistical significance on the primary outcome measure, ADAS-Cog (Alzheimer's Disease Assessment Scale - Cognition Subscale.)
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The exotic (to the setting) love interest in "Sirocco," Märta Torén as Violette, has more screen presence than did Florence Marly in "Tokyo Joe," but only a fraction of Ingrid Bergman's (in "Casabalanca"), andno claims to righteousness at all.
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"Sirocco" is the weakest visually and the one with obvious studio exterior scenes (most of "Casablanca" takes place indoors, and none in Arab sections).
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In addition to the forceful colonial officer played by Cobb, "Sirocco" includes Zero Mostel as the oily merchant Balukjiaan.
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An anti-colonialist position is expounded in "Sirocco," though the movie identifies with the "white man's burden" French position.
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"Tokyo Joe" (1949) and "Sirocco" (1951) he played American cabaret owners in troubled cities: immediately postwar Tokyo and 1925 Damascus with an Arab revolt at the French "protectorate" imposed by the League of Nations.
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There are less credible bases for Bogart's character to get involved in "Sirocco" than in
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George Antheil provided moody music with some local colors to both "Sirocco" and "Tokyo Joe."
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