Salazar's secret police, supposedly modeled on the Gestapo, sent suspected dissidents to the infamous Tarrafal prison in the Cape Verde Islands.
A group supposedly modeled on Gladys Knight and the Pips sings "Wasn't It a Mighty Day," but this Gladys's singing and dancing — not to mention her wig — make the group seem like Tina Turner and the Pips.
The group is supposedly modelled on an Italian pro-Zapatista movement.But an associate of the Wombles, who is also one of the architects of the Monopoly plan, insists that the group, and the plan, are peaceable.
In Asian contexts, teachers are supposedly models of correct behaviour and students are allowed to speak only when asked to do so (Scollon and Scollon, 1995), or are discouraged to question either their teachers or other classmates who might be older, or of a different gender (Kennedy, 2002).
The world fills us with images and lifestyles of people who are supposedly models of success.
I tell Collins that he reminds me of the late Colonel David Hackworth, the much-decorated Vietnam commander who was supposedly the model for Colonel Kilgore in Apocalypse Now.
Unipol, with its headquarters in "red" Bologna, on Via Stalingrado, was supposedly a model of all that the left can bring to capitalism.
The Sudanese government has recently stepped up attacks in Darfur, and former rebels in southern Sudan accuse Sudan's leaders of torpedoing a major peace deal signed in 2005, which is supposedly a model for Darfur.
Mr Sharpton, supposedly the model for the Reverend Bacon in Tom Wolfe's "Bonfire of the Vanities", was Miss Brawley's fierce defender, alongside two other black activists, Vernon Mason and Alton Maddox.
Among his less testy encounters is one with an expatriate vestige of Jamaica's colonial past, Blanche Blackwell, who befriended Ian Fleming and was supposedly a model for the "Sapphic aeroplane pilot and martial arts expert, Pussy Galore" in "Goldfinger".
