Word: exoticism
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What do you call a cuisine that offers plantain flan, mango tabbouleh and a boniato-yuca torta? Miamamerican cooking? Nuevo Mundo cuisine? Nuevo Cubano? Whatever the tag, Miami chefs are winning applause with fresh fish, tropical fruits and exotic root vegetables, eclipsing the now hackneyed blackened- everything cuisine that emanated...
Between those two milestones, 19 years apart, the U.S. had a President who never bought the theory of mutual deterrence or its perverse-sounding corollary, mutual vulnerability. Ronald Reagan dreamed of pure, total defense. His Strategic Defense Initiative, or Star Wars, was a testament of faith that Yankee ingenuity could...
Other, more exotic technologies have produced disappointment as well. Videoconferencing has largely flopped as a substitute for business travel because costly systems -- they range up to $20,000 in price -- have failed to transmit clear, crisp images and audio signals. Users complain that they are prevented from swapping notes and...
Another challenge was "having to socialize with oil-rich Arabs in a style to which they had become accustomed," says Beaty. So there were late-night visits to nightclubs in Casablanca and purchases of exotic foods from Los Angeles to London. Once, a defector from the black network who was...
Think of Delta Air Lines, and the hubs that come to mind are Atlanta, Salt Lake City and Dallas. But now Delta customers can dream of more exotic destinations: Brussels, Vienna, Rome, New Delhi, Moscow. Last week Delta snapped up most of what's left of failing Pan Am, collecting...