Word: exoticism
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It sounds good, and when I read this in the foreword to Delta of Venus I agreed wholeheartedly. Then I read the book, a strange combination of genuinely sexy and often beautiful writing, affected prose and naive Freudianism. Exotic Chinese and Africans are used as backdrops. Sensual women can be...
Because the entire controversy may boil down to America's faith in itself and in Jimmy Carter, the White House is gradually gearing up the nation's defense planning and spending. Within a few weeks Carter will decide whether the next step in ballistic missile planning should focus...
They don't come expecting exotic sights. Once you've made one loop around the small island where the ducks live, there's nothing too exciting to see. Instead, the "swanboat experience" is passive. Sit on the park benches bolted to these flat-bottomed tubs, let the sun heat you...
Saji's father, who started as an Osaka wine importer, began touting Scotch half a century ago. At the time, it was an exotic import favored notably by Japanese naval officers, who had picked up the taste from British seamen. He opened the first Japanese whisky distillery, using as...
By the 1950s she was rather like Omai, the noble savage whom Captain Cook brought back from Tahiti to the court of George III. America loved Grandma Moses as the representative of natural virtue-the ambassadress of a past that was al ready being sentimentalized on an industrial scale. Her...