Word: exoticism
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It's late August, and your Harvard Summer Experience is almost complete You've seen the Square, shopped HMV Records and the Body Shop and done your time in the hallowed halls of higher learning. You've nursed cups of exotic coffee in the beatnik cafes which hide on dimly...
Tandy has been swept up in the personal-computer industry's most savage shake-out ever. Squeezed by falling demand on one hand and a destructive price war on the other, PC makers are realizing their worst nightmare: their once exotic, high-technology products have become little more than cheap...
Many of these cold new stories have little going for them except the glamor of places with exotic names or expensive drugs. These pieces suggest that Bernhard is taking herself or her stardom a little too seriously.
In Bernhard's first book, Confessions of a Pretty Lady, reminiscences of a suburban childhood lent a unifying theme to the short pieces and kept Bernhard from getting carried away with brittle, celebrity cynicism. Many of these cold new stories have little going for them except the glamor of places...
In 28 turbulent years in the political vortex, she got scant credit for her lasting contributions as First Lady, or even for being a real person behind the tautly composed image. Mostly forgotten is her expansion of the role of First Lady as foreign emissary, on her own. She loved...