Word: exoticism
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Besides the standard choices of savings deposits, stocks, bonds and mutual funds, financial advisers are now nudging clients toward such exotic new fare as zero-coupon bonds, seven-day bank C.D.s, and brokerage-house deposit certificates. With such a variety to choose from, even professionals are befuddled. Says Gary Strum...
RIPPLING MUSCLES WRITHE to primitive drumbeats, naked skin shimmers for voracious eyes, and brown eyes, reflect internal fires. Steamy Xica mesmerizes characters with her glib tongue and her sensuous hips. And men experience unimaginable ecstasies when she unleashes her exotic, sensual wiles--behind closed doors. They become Xica's slaves...
All these exotic costumes enhance Xica's natural sexuality. No true beauty. Xica captivates men with some special tricks which are never revealed--but the men's screams are telling enough. Motta as Xica fills her character with enticing charm and energy; the momentum of her performance never wanes. Her...
Into the vacuum rushes film critic Diane Jacobs. "Only his analyst," burbles the book jacket, "could possibly know Woody Allen as well as Diane Jacobs." Jacobs does, in fact, take something of the analyst's approach: dutifully "listening" to, or in this case recounting, all the content of each of...
Variety, which has 13 full-time reporters, three editors and one columnist, is celebrated, too, for its use of such exotic locutions as "canto" for week, "cleffer" for songwriter, "w.k." for well known and "ankled" for quit. The paper faithfully records the cross-continent comings and goings of celebrities, and...