Word: exoticism
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"This is an annual occurrence," James H. Mann '81-2, another club member, said yesterday. He added that factions rotate from House to House. "I think it's extremely educational because it's old fashioned ward politics and thus retains a certain exotic interest for those of us born in...
Beyond the exotic cinematic locale and roguish approach, the clearest assets in Bye Bye Brazil are Jose Wilker and Betty Fariah as the veteran troupers. Wilker seems to have only two expressions--an unconvincingly heroic sternness and a wonderfully fatuous smile of beneficence--but he deploys them willingly. He provides...
Ono could do a lot more than that. The banker's daughter set herself to mastering the mysteries of commercial law and deal making just as, earlier, she had wrestled with the exotic exigencies of John Cage. She met the attorneys and the accountants; she supervised the buying up...
The spurting price of oil has prompted both scientists and backyard tinkerers to try tapping alternative forms of energy, ranging from sun power to geyser power. Not waiting for these exotic energies to arrive, Brazil is making an all-out effort to exploit a quite ordinary, but until now underused...
Those who work for newsmagazines sometimes wish that life were really as the novelists depict it-full of eccentrics who collect iguanas and medicine writers who come down with the exotic diseases they have just described.