Word: exoticism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Eleanor Roosevelt, who has been called about everything else, was called by Artists' Agent Leora Thompson one of the few women whose legs "fully reveal their soul." Said Gamologist Thompson: Eleanor's legs reveal "traveling dynamism"; Stripteuse Margie Hart's-"suppressed dignity"; pallid Cinemactress Gene Tierney'...
In the Brooklyn home of Novelist Sholem (The Nazarene) Asch, jazz was forbidden because it was bordello music; cowboy ballads were allowed. One of his three sons, Moe (for Moses) Asch, 40, has become the nation's No. 1 recorder of out-of-the-way jazz, cowboy music and...
Showdown's lusty action begins in a Chinese hotel in Rabaul, where "the white female form is an extremely rare sight. . . even when clothed." So when Schooner Captain Shamus got his first eyeful of gorgeous Cleo, it was as if "an exotic and beautiful wild creature [was] trampling the...
Real hero of Lute Song is famed, all-too-infrequently busy Scene Designer Robert Edmond Jones (Emperor Jones, Green Pastures), whose sets and costumes are often things of splendor. They tremendously enhance the movement as well as the looks of the play-the wedding and burial scenes, the exotic dances...
The Black Rose ("feudal England . . . exotic Cathay . . . forbidden love"), by Thomas B. Costain, reached and held first place on the lists, cost 20th Century-Fox $100,000.