Word: exoticism
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When Bagwell gets his Christmas card from Egashira every year, he knows to expect a photo of Egashira in some exotic place that tooks weeks of hiking to reach. “I have yet to receive one in which he has kept his shirt on,” Bagwell...
Some directors take a journey into the exotic past, some into the perilous present. Two distinguished Iranian auteurs made films that tested their journalistic as well as dramatic instincts. Abbas Kiarostami, who won Cannes' highest prize in 1997 for The Taste of Cherry, was invited by the Uganda Women's...
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...