Word: exotica
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...risk analysis of the executives in multinational corporations. But how does one determine the actuarial odds in the Persian Gulf? What is the revolution quotient in Bahrain, the kidnap potential of Beirut? Like expatriates before him, Axton, recently separated from his wife and son, oscillates between the thrill of exotica and the lost comforts of home. One of the Athens-based corporate transients with whom Axton spends ouzo-drenched evenings finds Americans "eerie people." They are "genetically engineered to play squash and work weekends." Even Axton dispels his fear of violence with irony. "I go everywhere twice," he says. "Once...
August for baseball fans is usually a month to contemplate home runs, pennant fever and World Series possibilities. The game's exotica, like base-stealing records, are condemned to wistful tavern afternoons. There, oldtimers can sip a brew or two and contemplate Ty Cobb's 96 high-spike steals in 1915, Maury Wills' well-plotted 104 in '62, and Lou Brock's legendary 118 eight years...
...privately held Kohler Co. of Kohler, Wis., creator of the Infinity Bath, the Super Spa and other exotica for people who want their bathrooms to be fun as well as functional. Says Chairman Herbert Kohler Jr., 43, heir to the century-old plumbing dynasty: "In times of recession, we don't pull back." Even though Kohler has had to lay off 300 of its 6,000 workers because of slow sales of some products, the company is going ahead with its most ambitious capital spending program ever. This year Kohler will invest $50 million, more than...
Right Place offers more than analysis, however, MacNeil demonstrates that he is a master story teller as he recalls the danger, adventure and Exotica that most journalists only dream about...
...trivia and the inventive Cleverly designed, the cube appeals to a nation that is home to electric can openers, touch-tone phones, and canned hot shaving cream. Americans love garish toys tinged with plastic high tech and the ubiquitous "New, Improved!" label--skateboards with polyurethane wheels, very square exotica from a Hungarian mathematician...