Word: exoticism
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And so do we Stripping away the deceptive dew of formulate novel writing--the exotic foreign city, the glamourous actress, the handsome young hero-- and Foreign Affairs seems like anything but an easy gamble Lurie spares as none of the foibles and failing of the Professors of Love, but makes...
The second exotic subject is more mysterious, almost surreal. It is a zebra mare, which had been brought from the Cape of Good Hope and given to Queen Charlotte in 1762. This "painted African, ass," the first seen in England, was installed in the royal menagerie at Buckingham Gate. When...
Having devoted most of their lives to studying the plant, the Tryons have traced it to some of the globe's more exotic regions and in the process have classified and experimented with many of the estimated 15,000 types, ranging from the 80-foot-high fern tree to the...
Rubbia's find represented a great leap forward in science's attempt to prove the so-called unified field theory, which would link the four forces of nature in a single elegant set of equations. Two of those forces are familiar: electromagnetism, which lights bulbs and makes clothes...
C. Richard Taylor, Agassiz Professor of Zoology, spends much of his time studying exotic animals like kangaroos, wallabies and setifers. But he's very rarely seen with them in public.