Word: exoticism
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The Fogg has dusted off some of its Islamic treasures and mounted a small but sumptuous display of Persian, Turkish, and Armenian objects from the 12th to the 18th century. Ceramics, paintings, ceremonial armor and calligraphy have all been crowded into a small gallery on the second floor. The exhibition...
Hemphill is a former columnist for The Atlanta Journal who, since going freelance a few years ago, has become one of the people who interprets the South for the magazine-reading public. It's a position similar to that of travel/adventure writers in the late 19th and early 20th centuries...
The Carpenter Center has an exhibit of 60 million-year-old crystals from India. The rocks are for sale and you can choose from such exotic minerals as Stilbite bow ties, Mesolite or Okenite, either furry or on Quartz. Even if you're not in the rock market, the shapes...
The Seduction of Mimi is the work of Lina Wertmuller, whose previous Love and Anarchy (TIME, May 20) also investigated, albeit a little more sorrowfully, the exotic compulsions of physical and political passion. Mimi is set in Sicily, the location of much good Italian comedy. Sicily is one of those...
Private Lives has an exotic origin, an erotic icing, and a moronic plot which forces director Peter D. Arnott and his chief actors, William Franklin Hutson and Jan Lewis, to scramble desperately to salvage a basically nebbish play. Noel Coward, the first English playwright to introduce Henry Ford's assembly...