Word: exoticism
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Infowar weapons may be even more exotic than computer viruses. Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico has developed a suitcase-size device that generates a high-powered electromagnetic pulse. Commandos could sneak into a foreign capital, place the EMP suitcase next to a bank and set it off. The...
Shrewdly, Whistler kept just enough American quirks to make him look exotic to Europeans--while speaking to other Americans in a Franco-British accent. He liked buckwheat cakes and green corn, sweet potatoes and American cocktails; he had a flat American straw hat and a specimen of American invention, a...
The Fokine bill is a showcase for the company's talent, stronger among the women than the men. The troupe seems to relish exotic plumage. The Firebird production is a grandiose set-piece, reveling in the folk story instead of flattening it. It also underscores the fact that the Kirov...
Online porn certainly pays. Thomas' income last year topped $800,000, enabling the slight, shaggy-haired Californian to indulge in his two extracurricular passions: expensive cars and exotic birds. Subscriptions have more than doubled (to 7,000) since his arrest. Some of the newcomers aren't even bothering to download...
You can bet your velvet-covered pangolin that few readers will be distracted by the loose grammar and exotic similes. Conroy will simply overwhelm them with his leapfrogging plots and romantic scenery: a movie-set Rome, a travel-book Venice and the postcard-pretty South Carolina coast. Too tame? Then...