Word: exoticism
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"East Asian studies is an exotic subject for most people," Coolidge said, when explaining the difficulties he has had in fund-raising for the project. "It's not like building a hockey rink or a sicence building. Not everyone can relate, for example, to Mongolian affairs."
Here, however, Doyle's crudeness is transported to Marseilles and an alliance with the French gendarmerie, where it gets a chance to show what good old American vulgarity can really do. And the film is surprisingly serious about the usually cliched conflict between European urbanity and Doyle's simple "I...
The medical section of the CIA produced some exotic pills and even "fixed" a box of fine Havana cigars. The cigars seem never to have left the laboratory, but the pills were turned over to the Mafia. The would-be assassin was to have been paid $150,000 if he...
He says that Harvard academics--a dozen went on the most recent, May trip to Iran--are anxious to get in on any "exotic academic enterprise" but that the plans for the University do not specify how many places in the research facility Harvard faculty will get.
Coy Puns. The casting of Lynn Redgrave as the titular heroine is one clue to this light direction. Redgrave is long of leg and spunky, and does an amusing accent, sort of a delicatessen Dutch. She also narrates the film and dispenses some of the screenwriters' coy puns. One...