Word: exoticism
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I looked to my right and found the dried remains of some exotic dish purported to be pu pu platter. I then looked to my left and encountered what appeared to be an endless amount of crusty, spherical projectiles oozing some indistinguishable, jelly-like substance slowly from either end--the...
Now the combatants are turning to even more exotic technologies. A small Denver company called Innovisions Research has introduced a line of Stealth attachments, which fasten to the front of an automobile and use microwave- absorbing materials like those in the Stealth bomber to reduce the car's visibility to...
Tabarez is not booming alone. Across the U.S., thousands of young, mostly male, boom-car aficionados are ripping out their backseats and dashboards to make room for stereo equipment as advanced as audiophiles have at home. Says Danny Moore of East Orange, N.J.: "Girls all want to go out with...
Yet the device remained for decades an exotic box, a contraption mostly for adventurers and the wealthy. That changed after 1888, the year George Eastman introduced the inexpensive Kodak. Amateur photography became the new folk art, and fine-art practitioners had to scramble for a way to distinguish themselves from...
Guests at the oceanside Hyatt are festooned with exotic flowers and offered colorful concoctions before they reach the check-in desk of the half-indoor, half-outdoor lobby. (What would you do with those lovely rugs after a driving rain? Replace them, replies the managing director, smug as a puffin...