Word: exoticism
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The museum keeps a low profile. It has its public side, with displays next to the glass flowers exhibit at the University Museum. The public museum contains a vast array of exhibits--from stuffed birds, mammals, and dinosaurs to exotic fishes, fossils and other creatures found by natural scientists. Although...
Rather, Anderson has managed to maintain her knack for writing clear, simple melodies which retain a haunting resonance. And the African instrumentation, rather than detracting from these melodies, heightens them; Anderson doesn't merely colour the songs with African instruments in order to give them an exotic tinge, rather she...
Anderson's sing-song vocals surprisingly not only fit in which the exotic settings of the sings, but are also integral to the album, especially the slow moody songs like "League of Amour", "Gravity's Angel", and "Blue Lagoon." As usual, Anderson has her eccentric, funny phrasing. But much more...
On Big Science, Anderson altered the usual visions of technology into a mysterious, and chillingly beautiful vision of "Golden cities. Golden towns. And long cars in long lines and great big signs", Mister Heartbreak takes this eerie vision of the modern scientific world further by contrasting and mixing it with...
Nowhere has the "camo" craze been more noticeable than in Washington, where Redskins mania has been epitomized Running Back John Riggins' off-field military garb. Sales of military gear have "broken all records," according to Laura Loeb, manager of Washington's U.S. Military store. A city bus was...