Word: exotica
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...everything from French dry morels ($5.95 per oz.) to a $1,000 espresso-cappuccino machine, has increased its sales sixteenfold over the past dozen years. Says Co-Owner Murray Klein: "We have never seen such an explosion of food buying." Supermarkets from coast to coast now stock such onetime exotica as game pates, Beluga caviar, imported mustards, goat and sheep cheese, leeks, shallots, scallions, bean curd, pea pods, bok choy, capers, curries, coriander and cornichons...
...Argyll's Inveraray Castle (cost: $50,000 a pair in Yankee green). Or, for $37,500 each, they can spend two weeks aboard a schooner retracing Darwin's voyage of the Beagle. Sakowitz, while reporting more "interest" than sales, was hoping for a last-minute spurt in exotica purchases...
...been writing ever since. She has plunged into her formidable assignment with a single-mindedness worthy of Scarlett. Just returned from a seven-week sojourn in the South, Edwards works in her Manhattan apartment bedroom, which she has converted into a cluttered archive of Reconstruction exotica. Beginning every morning at 8:30, propped up in bed by five pillows, she sifts through the five cartons of photocopied newspaper clippings that she collected in Dixie...
...women who arrived in New York City 20 years ago, seduced by the city's promise of adventure, exotica, success and love, the need to choose was for more rigid and the assumptions not so clear. As Rona Jaffe '51 describes in The Best of Everything, published in 1958, for three young women the search for a path to follow meant a struggle with hurt, frustration and most saliently, compromise...
...quality of the pictures. That sort of photojournalism is no longer vital: When The Family of Man approach to photography burnt itself out when it (visually, if not politically) realized its own propnecy. The mass medias's quest for speed and the exotic pushed the frontiers of exotica so far back and so far back and so saturated the public with images that few people really cared any more about another black and whit photograph...