Word: exotica
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...what mattered were the symbols of exotica that attended the organization, such as the jewel of the order and its Arabic motto, Kuwat wa Ghadab (Strength and Fury), and the special intramural greeting, "Es selamu alei-kum" ("Peace be with...
...Arnulf of Carinthia about A.D. 890. The vitrines of other rooms continue the historical procession, running from Gothic goblets through High Renaissance amphorae etched with centaurs to a Napoleonic nécessaire-an elaborate Empire traveling case designed for Bonaparte's second wife, Marie Louise. By way of exotica, the Munich Schatzkammer has a brace of bejeweled Ceylonese chests, Persian daggers and Turkish scimitars, Ming porcelains set in Renaissance gold frames, a Mexican stone mask embellished by a German goldsmith after it got to Munich...
...regular titlist in the world's ten-best-dressed-women stakes, opened to the public a gemlike boutique in Manhattan's St. Regis Hotel. Located just two blocks from where her estranged husband, Louis Arpels of Van Cleef & Arpels, traffics in tiaras, the new establishment stocks such exotica as 17th century quill pens with ballpoint nibs ($13.45) and square-toed velvet bedroom slippers for men ($24). Cooed Mme. Arpels, gesturing at the merchandise with a ring-finger diamond that would choke a Gabor: "I'm so amused with...
Where the book called up images of lovely backwoods flora and fauna, the film has the artsy-craftsy exotica of Trader Vic's. The book's Anna Vorontosov was an interestingly unbalanced woman whose salvation came from the joyous dangers she found in teaching; the movie's Anna alternates between being cute and fighting for her virtue. One moment she plods through a witless musical routine about Pogo, the next she is braining Hero Harvey for ripping open her blouse (with cretinous whinnies of "Open sesame!"). And where it was right for the hero to blow...
...Barber of Seville, The Marriage of Figaro, and The Force of Destiny (monaural and stereophonic) in impressive boxes with brass fittings and color-dripping illustrations. Another and more daring approach is to look for obscure, rarely or never-recorded works. Part of the recent growth of operatic exotica is London's Giuditta (three mono and stereo), the principal serious effort of Vienna's operetta master, Franz Lehar, who had lifelong pretensions to grand opera. First produced at the Vienna State Opera in 1934 when Lehar was 63, the work has to do with a Carmen-like doxy...