Word: exoticism
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Arrayed next to the M.D.s and what might be called the spiritual innovators are synthesizers like Thomas Moore, who has researched the Christian and classical wisdom of millenniums to create his best-selling "owners' guides" to late-20th century souls. Moore does not prescribe cures but has much to say...
In person, Kerrey is the antithesis of a party hack. With his macrocephalic head and mesmeric blue eyes, he comes across as a winsome extraterrestrial. Even more exotic among politicians, he actually seems to be thinking while he talks, and given the opportunity, he'll talk about anything but politics...
Without it, the straying mind turns subversive. By what magic, it wonders, is Cruise, who co-produced the movie and is presumably not without clout in these matters, sporting the worst haircut ever worn in public by a major movie star? How does a supposedly desperate team of rogue spooks...
But the matter cuts deeper than envy or hurt feelings. For it does nobody any favors when the nature of science is distorted in the public mind. Paleoanthropology is most emphatically not a business in which a single discovery in some exotic locale will magically answer all our questions--or...
In a film industry like France's, actors just act. Reigning beauties like Catherine Deneuve and Emmanuelle Beart take a wide variety of parts, and nobody gets upset if they switch genres. Hollywood is, of course, different. There are stars, and then there are all those other people--actors. But...