Word: exoticism
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Inside Building 80, the U.S. Department of Agriculture's shabby concrete-and- tin inspection station on the outskirts of New York's John F. Kennedy + International Airport, a crate of bonsai trees en route from the Republic of China to Memphis has been pried open. In a nearby room rests...
"New Age music is the sound track for the movie of the mind," says English-born Rocker Eddie Jobson, formerly of Roxy Music and U.K. and now a leading New Age pianist and composer. "It is music that springs from a world culture," says Lucia Hwong, a Chinese American whose...
As a frequent traveler in the First and Third worlds, Theroux has undoubtedly seen excesses and disasters that have stimulated his imagination. His book's one flaw is that it is too observant. Descriptions and exotic details help build a brave new fictional world, but too many gadgets and repetitions...
When it comes to alcoholic beverages, U.S. consumers have developed a taste for sweetness and light, and the liquor, wine and beer industries (total 1985 sales: more than $50 billion) are scrambling to satisfy them. The result: a head-spinning array of exotic mixtures, handy packaging and zingy promotion that...
Last year hard-liners like Richard Perle asserted that SDI was exempt from the treaty's constraints on development and testing because it is based on exotic technologies unavailable in 1972. This Philadelphia-lawyerly reading was hotly disputed, not only by the Soviets but by the American negotiators who helped...