Word: exoticism
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SO It's safe, it's exotic without being foreign and, most important, it wants you. We smell some bargains.
Now advertising itself as “a drugstore, first, last and always,” Billings and Stover started in 1854 to roll pills and three wars have not stood in its way. Over 1000 prescriptions were filled that first year—the same number are packaged now...
For the past 140 years, Billings & Stover has been a drug store that filled prescriptions at the back counter and sold cosmetics, exotic perfumes and ice cream in the front.
Wild Ginger, Min's protagonist, has been marked out as a potential subversive since birth. She has exotic yellow-green eyes, a reflection of her mixed parentage (European father, Chinese mother). She starts off as a spunky little rebel, bravely rescuing the narrator, Maple, from the beatings of the schoolyard...
The computer already has been put to work at more than 700 specific tasks, both mundane and exotic, from bookkeeping to monitoring underground nuclear explosions. Computers control the flow of electric current for much of the nation, route long-distance telephone calls, set newspaper type, even dictate just how sausage...