Word: exoticism
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Waugh's satire would not be lost on Wilfred Thesiger, who wandered through some of the world's most hostile wastes for nearly 50 years with little more than the native garb on his back, some medicines, a few books, a camera and a rifle. Thesiger, now almost...
Misha, the Moscow mascot of the Summer Olympics, has been shaken by Jimmy Carter's Olympic boycott, and so has the NBC peacock. Now the shock waves have reached Postmaster General William F. Bolger, who last week withdrew all U.S. Olympic commemorative stamps, postcards and envelopes from the market...
But other homosexuals remain touchy about the idea that gays consciously seek danger. They insist that only between 1% and 5% of homosexuals lean toward leather. Says Charles Brydon, co-director of the National Gay Task Force: "There just is not any evidence that gays are into S-M any...
Angi Vera is a film of paradoxes. The setting-at least for Americans-is at once exotic and dismal. The heroine, Angi Vera, is a fierce mouse. The style is gentle, almost pensive, yet the tale told is near savage in its implications.
The handlers now include the organizers, fund raisers, pollsters, television counselors, speechwriters and idea men. In the ambitious campaigns, exotic species like voice therapists and hair stylists have joined the ranks. The media members are separate, of course, but necessary to make it all run. The handlers and journalists thus...