Word: exoticism
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Like its even more egregious older sister Macarena, The Ketchup Song started as a holiday hit. (Europeans travel to Ibiza and return to their soggy homes with a sunny, exotic tune stuck in their heads.) The genius of Ketchup is that its bouncy chorus--"Asereje ja de je de jebe...
Sipping a virgin piNa colada while sitting in the off-white pleather booths of a small Hong Kong wine bar with a few friends, Chen converses on topics ranging from designer Paul Frank's latest clothing line to rapper Snoop Doggy Dogg. She isn't apologetic about her absence of...
Tina: Hang gliding, synchronized swimming, ping-pong. I think he enjoys foreign films, it just seems he has fine taste—he must like very good food, something exotic.
From first light on Sunday, women in thick brown veils, families on donkey carts and men dangling chickens from bicycle handlebars throng the streets. A riot of headgear?Mao caps, white Kyrgyz ak-kalpaks, woolly Turkmen telpeks and the black-velvet hats of local Uighurs?reveals the diversity of the...
The three people at the story's center?Pyle (Brendan Fraser), the older English reporter Thomas Fowler (Caine) and local lovely Phuong (Do Thi Hai Yen), whom the two men covet, conquer and betray?can be seen as representing the Americans, Europeans and Vietnamese of the early '50s, dancing on...