Word: exoticism
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Back in the Soviet era, when the criminal code barred trading, there were no peddlers. Now much of the country's economic engine is driven not by the haut monde boutiques on Tverskaya but by the corrugated larki, or street stalls, which have sprung up across Moscow (and which the...
That faith is an exotic mixture of innovative Americana and unconventional Christianity. Indeed, while Mormon teachers speak increasingly of "Mormon Christianity," most Christians would blanch at the actual theology. Mormon history states that Joseph Smith founded the church in Fayette, New York, in 1830 after being directed by the angel...
Opera fans, too, struggle to get to Glyndebourne, but tickets have always been virtually unobtainable. Much of the small house, 40 miles south of London, is presold to corporate and individual sponsors. For these wealthy people, an evening at Glyndebourne is a social rite, a rare chance to behave like...
"There is that thing if you watch 'JungleFever'-the implication that you have some deviantexotic image of another ethnic group," Gubbinssays. "That is not the case with the people I havedated. There is no exotic, fetish thing going on."
"If you are dating a white person it could bebecause you act just like a white person but youhave slanty eyes," Nguyen says, "or it could beyou are so exotic that the person wants to seewhat you are like."