Word: exoticism
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Louis M. Roth does not have to go looking all over the world for his specimens--they come to him, usually in an envelope. Roth, who is known in the field of entomology as the leading expert on cockroaches, frequently receives exotic insects in the mail with requests to identify...
Were the Oscar voters telling The Last Emperor's director that they loved the movie, they really loved it? Surely there were waves of affection breaking over the winners of the acting prizes: Cher (Moonstruck), Michael Douglas (Wall Street), Sean Connery (The Untouchables) and Olympia Dukakis (Moonstruck). But The Last...
Our central character is Paul (William Converse-Roberts), a young, success-driven banker. We see him making connections at cocktail parties, bad-mouthing fellow-workers to his boss and jetting to exotic lands to work out deals. His significant other, Fran (Alice Manning), is just as stereotypical (but then, don...
Sponsored by Piedmont Airlines, the concert's "free stuff" motif conjured up exotic images: a round-the-world ticket, a spring break trip, perhaps even a week with the Dins in Bangkok on their 1988 summer tour. What the Dins' peers, parents and other sophisticated patrons received was much more...
The Harvard women's lacrosse team was very busy last week. While some people were relaxing on exotic beaches, the laxwomen played four games in four different states.