Word: exoticism
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They came by the millions when times were good, from backward villages in Anatolia and the Punjab, from the Caribbean and North Africa. For the most part, they were welcome, even sought after. They constituted a willing and indispensable Lumpenproletariat for Western Europe's postwar boom, ready to do...
Embattled managers who hope to avoid corporate takeovers can draw upon a wide array of defenses. Many have acquired exotic names: Pac-Man, shark repellent, white knight. Some are more effective than others, and none, alas, work all the time.
Hugh Amory, an associate curator of the Houghton Library collection, calls the first Bible printed in Cambridge, Mass. in 1663 "an impressive little volume" because it was the first to be worded in an exotic Indian tongue. Amory also finds an 1827 book of colorful life size paintings by ornithologist...
The Nordic Combined might as well be a smorgasbord entree to most Americans, but it may become less exotic after Sarajevo. Many consider Coloradan Kerry Lynch, 26, the world's best at the event, which pairs a 15-km cross-country race with a 70-meter ski jump. Lynch...
As the gutsy, globetrotting Marion in Raiders of the Lost Ark, Karen Allen, 32, established herself as a heroine with a flair for exotic adventure. But in Until September, which has just finished filming in Paris, the Illinois-born actress finds some risky business in a setting that is more...