Word: exoticism
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Establishment Au Bon Pain Bruegger's. C'est Bon David's The Greenhouse Cafe Physical Appearance The Ugly Duckling of cookies. Dark, dry, crusty, cracked, and hard. A baker's beauty. A very a attractive cookie--large, thick, and soft--with lots of healthy-sized chips. Nothing special. Thin, hard...
"Business has been slow," he said of the store, which sells salt and pepper grinders and exotic peppers.
Solar power was an exotic new technology when John Schaeffer graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1972 and helped start a primitive commune in the woods of northern California. But he was a tinkerer, and in his spare time he managed to rig up a solar-powered television...
Chu and his colleagues first stunned the research community six years ago by showing that a compound containing the exotic element yttrium could become a superconductor at 98 degrees on the Kelvin scale favored by physicists (that's a not-so-balmy -283 degreesF). That record, broken repeatedly, is now...
Samuel Johnson, in a famous aphorism, once derided opera as "an exotic and irrational entertainment." That may have been true in London two centuries ago, when castrati sopranos warbled Handel in Italian before an audience of uncomprehending Britons. But during the past two decades, a wave of new American operas...