Word: exotica
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Sonsie is not for wan women or frail society ladies of delicate constitutions. This is a frantic nest of raucousness, but also a colorful pageant of the elegant and the dodgy, offering a dining experience which demands that you contend with outlandish decor, menu exotica and a congested and tortuous layout...
...needed. Despite a few hours of haggling over language, the document remained pretty much as it was--a left-liberal entreaty for things large (universal health care) and small (making Election Day a national holiday). The utopian radicalism of some of the state Green Party platforms, which include such exotica as unilateral disarmament, was missing. "It's a solid and serious document," says platform chairman Steve Schmidt, "for a solid and serious movement...
...Exotica, which takes place in the forbidden world of an erotic dance club and also brings together an eclectic group of characters, was celebrated by most critics as Egoyan's final maturation into one of the industry's foremost independent filmmakers. Although Egoyan keeps a special place in his heart for his early films, he does view Exotica as a kind of culmination. "I definitely saw Exotica as a summation of many of my recurrent themes-at the time, I believed that I had gone as far as I could with original material and it was time to move onto...
...Believing that he had exhausted his ideas for original material with Exotica, Egoyan decided it was time to turn to the literary world. Egoyan eventually chose Russell Banks's The Sweet Hereafter, a relentlessly bleak story about the aftermath of a tragedy in which fourteen children are killed in a school bus accident. The result was an infinitely subtle and heartbreaking film that found its way onto over 200 top ten lists...
...write my screenplays as if they are puzzles-rather, I start with the pieces and work from there. I know it's a stereotype, but there is the sense that many Armenians like making rugs. It's actually true in my case. I like to see The Adjuster and Exotica as more of weaving a tapestry than putting a puzzle together...