Word: exotica
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Metal traders were skeptical that CIPEC could drive up prices. They questioned the effectiveness of a cutback in shipments without a reduction in production. Almost in response, the Chilean government announced that it would close down the Exotica Mine for six months; the mine, one of Chile's largest, last year produced about 32,000 tons, or only 4% of Chile's copper exports. That should certainly not be enough to kick up prices-unless more member countries also close their mines...
...penis, which believers in mystical medicine take to increase virility, are unlikely to hurt anything but the buyer's pocketbook. Neither are any of the 58 listed ingredients of another Chinatown favorite for aches and pains: ginseng rejuvenating pills, which are made in Hong Kong and contain such exotica as male mouse droppings, silkworm, rhinoceros horn, amber, turtle shell and myrrh. But this ancient Oriental panacea also contains an unlisted substance: the powerful Western painkiller phenylbutazone, a drug that has been linked with at least five cases of a rare and frequently fatal blood disease among users of ginseng...
...holds extensive microfilm records of TIME correspondents' dispatches, plus 500,000 highly specialized file folders containing countless millions of newspaper and magazine clippings (sample subjects: children's motels, underwater painting, women astronauts). There are also some 75,000 books, including all standard reference works and such useful exotica as A History of the Umbrella and A Dictionary of Angels...
Peking opera dates back to the 8th century reign of the Emperor Hsuan Tsung, but did not reach its final, refined form until the reign of Emperor Chien Lung (1736 to 1796). The style poses formidable challenges to Western audiences. There is appealing exotica in the pentatonic backgrounds played by such instruments as the two-stringed erh-hu, or alto fiddle, and assorted gongs, clappers, drums and pipes. But the high, falsetto fioritura of the singers is difficult to take at the start, even if it is the Chinese ideal of good singing. Most problematical of all are the symbolic...
...that Fellini's nemesis is reality itself, finally grown bizarre enough to challenge his imagination. So he strains to outdo the exotica of everyday reality, and in the straining finds himself an alien in the modern world. He doesn't know quite what to make of industrial advance, youth culture, and political ferment. He stares at those phenomena with confusion and regret and would willingly retreat to the more secure confusion of more hallucination...