Word: exoticism
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What happens at this point is that delicious sensation of letting-go familiar to readers of huge 19th century novels, but much less readily available to a moviegoer today. A skilled popular artist -the kind of man who can blend subtly observed details with a gift for socko showmanship-takes...
But there are exotic trains still in ser vice. The Trans-Siberia Express is running, though there is a strong possibility of having a lady commissar as your sleepermate. Angola's Benguela line, whose locomotives are the world's most fragrant (they burn eucalyptus logs), huffs up and...
J. Hawker developed his own exotic mode of operating, including in his letters lengths of red and yellow wire tied in a twisted knot to certify their authenticity. He negotiated with the FBI by quacking out his instructions on a duck caller over a citizens' band radio frequency in...
"Dreams, power and imagination," murmured High Priestess of Fashion Diana Vreeland. She was looking over galleries that glittered and winked with rhinestones, diamanté, sequins and paillettes. It was on the eve of her exhibition, Romantic and Glamorous Hollywood Design at the Metropolitan Museum, and the former Vogue editor in...
For going on 40 years now, Dwight Macdonald has written to-or at-his fellow Americans rather in the style of an indignant letter to the Times. The things Your Correspondent has to put up with! From native gaucheries ("Our manners are either bad or nonexistent") to Hollywood movies ("Palm...