Word: exoticism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Despite its two-hour length, "Caesar and Cleopatra" never begins to take shape. At every moment it seems as if the action and dialogue might move towards some unity, and then the cameral swings back to the spectacle of a thousand exotic extras milling in the shadow of a fabulous...
Sir George and Lady Ida had three children. Edith, the eldest, is the sad-looking, six-foot, sixtyish spinster now renowned for her exotic garb, her exotic prose, her "glittering plinths of jacynth" poetry. The elder son and successor to the title is Osbert: traveler, memoirist, novelist, literary crony of...
Unwisely, too, Welles's extravaganza from time to time pauses for identification as a musical comedy. But the love interest, the exotic dances and Cole Porter's tired tunes merely check the pace without livening the party.
The motivations of the flyer are not different from those of persons engaged in many other activities. "They fly" for the same reasons "they" report the news. The article from which you quote [TIME, April 29] does not imply that any new or exotic motives exist in the flyer. . . .
Replied Alpha Xi Delta's national president, Mrs. Beverly Robinson, a Washington clubwoman: ". . . I'm sorry this happened both for [Crystal's] sake and for ours. But I expect the girls up there thought she was an exotic and interesting person-the way you would think of...