being a `` foreigner , '' i was teamed up with the other foreigner , a dusky lebanese millionairess with huge tufts of mouse-colored hair in her armpits , and an equal passion for chocolate fudge and an egyptian film star called ben said , whose gleaming photograph-gleaming teeth , mustache , eyes , and hair-was soon to be torn up and flushed down the lavatory by the three senior girls of rose dormitory , of which we were both members .