Word: exoticism
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Perhaps the most frequently quoted remark about dance in recent years is George Balanchine's maxim, ''Ballet is woman.'' People respond to it heartily: for once, someone on the inside had the guts to state the obvious. Though some of the greatest stars, from Nijinsky to Baryshnikov, have been men...
But while Buddhism in the West might carry with it a hint of the exotic, here the appeal has more to do with its simplicity and pragmatism. That's what has drawn so many New Delhi yuppies to Soka Gakkai, a lay Buddhist movement whose extensive land holdings and political...
The Verne story has been cinematized a dozen or more times, including a TV movie earlier this year with Rick Schroder and Peter Fonda. The one in theaters today, directed by Eric Brevig and written by Michael Weiss, Jennifer Flackett and Mark Levin, sticks pretty closely to the plot: Professor...
See TIME's Global Adviser for exotic, beautiful and interesting getaways.
In the New York Public-School system, we read Huck Finn in the eighth grade. For a kid from the suburbs, the picaresque story of Huck and Jim was wonderfully exotic. Who wouldn't want to live along the Mississippi and drift down the river on a skiff? The buddy...