Word: exoticism
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Travel is the purest expression of freedom. Hop a plane or a train or get behind the wheel and in a few hours you can escape--from the routine, the familiar, to something new, exotic, liberating. But for years the travel industry has managed (or mismanaged) to drain much of...
The result could be a medical revolution. Until now, doctors haven't actually been fighting illnesses like cancer, stroke and heart disease. Instead they've been intervening at the level of symptoms--the last, visible step in a complex cascade of biochemical events. And they have done it largely by...
We reach Sugar Loaf and take a car suspended by cables to a lower peak, called Morro da Urca. It's a pretty exotic name, I decide, for a place that has the cheesy Kathleen Turner/Michael Douglas adventure comedy "Romancing the Stone" playing on the television in the bar next...
Don't get me wrong: Clinton was better to comedians than any other President in the 20th century. Most Presidents give you one good hook--Ford fell off airplanes, Reagan made a movie with a chimp, Carter owned a peanut farm. But Clinton was wildly generous to the comedic mind...
The chocolatier will perhaps evoke for sardonic viewers the old dope peddler of Tom Lehrer's song, "spreading joy wherever [s]he goes." Indeed, some of the desserts apparently contain aphrodisiacs. The movie itself may suggest to those who find themselves unsusceptible to its fabulistic charms how easy it has...