Word: exoticism
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"I was so surprised that I almost dropped my store teeth", says Walter Holmes, an official of the Interior Department. What amazed him was a new surge of interest in one of the nation's most exotic sources of energy. His office has been flooded by 2,456 applications...
Not so with René Magritte. The 34 Magrittes on display here (some of which, like The Human Condition, 1935, with its painted landscape on an easel in front of a window and continuous with the "real" painted landscape seen beyond, have virtually become surrealist icons) remain unpredictable despite their...
But even with my attacking instincts, and my ability to upset my opponents by clever psychological tricks (my favorite was to say "that stinks!" every time they made a move) I began to drop behind the other prodigies on the block. While they were plumbing the mystical depths of Reti...
Culture Talks. Thereafter, he operated with no restraints at all - not even from a board of directors. He bet his own money on his hunches. If he lost big when he tried to convert an opera star like Mary Garden into a movie star, he won big by importing exotic...
A healthy-looking and cheerful George Wallace, 54, was on a sojourn in a bastion of what he has called the pointyheads who can't park a bicycle straight: New York City. After accepting a Freedom Award from the right-wing Order of Lafayette, Wallace visited his doctor, Ling...