Word: exoticism
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The turning point of Catlin's career (as he describes it with a memory notorious for its adjustments of facts to drama) came when a delegation of Indian chiefs passed through Philadelphia in 1826 on the way to Washington. Catlin was fascinated by their exotic dress, their fierce bearing...
Buoyed by those and similar recent successes, venture capitalists are investing money ever more rapidly on ever more exotic business proposals. Last year 145 new companies were started with venture capital, 53% more than in 1979. By year's end, according to Stanley Pratt, editor of Venture Capital Journal...
AS IT STANDS, Tarzan, the Ape Man is a misleading title for the movie. Tarzan has very little to do with anything. Something like Bo Derek Takes Off Her Shirt in Exotic Places would be much more appropriate. She takes off her shirt to swim in the Great Inland Sea...
This emerging group of three women and two men are 30 or under. Each had the opportunity to work with young composers. Over the campus came the cries of tortured pianos and punished brass. Exotic instruments punctuated classes in Afro-American, jazz and a variety of modern dance disciplines. The...
"Even the fourteen-year-olds looked at least twenty with their long skirts and their neat, small waists strapped in leather belts. There were curtsies all along the passage as Mother Radcliffe passed. Most were no more than quick, springy bobs, but some were deep and slow and wonderful to...