Word: exoticism
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But for critics, the film's the thing with which to catch the temper of the times, the state of the art. And at Cannes 2001 some magic was missing. A day before the festival's Sunday climax, veterans were guessing that the jury, headed by actress Liv Ullmann, would...
Her inimitable living and dramatic demise made Egypt's exotic queen an icon-to many, the first female superstar. For several hundred years from the time of Caesar, Cleopatra and all things Egyptian intrigued even those Romans who demonized her, influencing style, customs and culture. By the early Renaissance in...
The answer: all were English-language adaptations of music from other languages."World music" is the phrase du jour for exotic sounds from Africa, Asia, South America - what used to be called the Third World. Today world music is available everywhere; type the words into your Google search line and...
If there is one career path that captures the essence of post-bubble Japan, it is "failed real estate speculator." During the '80s and early '90s, real estate speculation had been the frothy center of Japan's double-espresso economy, with developers and brokers becoming that era's version of...
That admiration, as you may have guessed, does not spill over into my regard for the brainiacs in Washington. Would it have been easier to just raise the price of a first-class stamp to 35 cents, or even 36 cents, and then let us all get on with our...