Word: exoticism
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The final list of the combined Harvard-Yale team goes up this afternoon, and once that is settled the Harvard track team can turn its thoughts to a location almost as exotic--Providence. R. I.--where the squad will head this weekend to take on Brown and Dartmouth.
With its embarrassingly weak premise, the manhunt is clearly little more than the director's excuse for these two youngsters to cavort through Asia, right wrongs, meet exotic people, and fall in love in spite of themselves. The movie could have been written by a studio committee pasting together successful...
Even then, the territory was an exotic ethnic mix that included Indo-Aryan Assamese, Assamese-speaking Hindus in the Brahmaputra valley, dozens of hill tribes of Mongoloid stock, and indigenous plains tribes. Then came successive waves of Bengalis, both Hindus and Muslims, who were first brought in by the British...
Lovesick comes across as a patchwork portrayal of a mid-life crisis, and all the allusions to psychological theories serve only to distract attention from the equally unfocused action. Director-writer Marshall Brickman tried too hard, and too obviously, to keep the film constantly hilarious with devices like Freud's...
Perhaps nothing is harder to satirize than a venture that is already a caricature of itself. By that standard, the ultimate challenge to a parodist would have to be the weekly scandal sheets sold at supermarket checkout counters, epitomized by the 56-year-old National Enquirer (circ. 5 million). The...