Word: exoticism
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Many experts see the roots of the present crisis in the simple fact that oil and natural gas have been too cheap. Not only has their low price encouraged waste, they argue, but it has made the country too dependent on one source of energy. If oil had been more...
The projector starts and the screen stays black--we hear a "haunting," "exotic" flute and soon the clatter of oxen's feet. After an interminably long time, the camera finds the cattle, and immediately pans in on the cloven hooves scuffing through the dusty soil. Thereby Rooks has introduced what...
Conservation efforts are equally vigorous away from the office. Deputy Chief of Correspondents Benjamin Cate has just traded in an eight-cylinder sports car for a four-cylinder auto that cannot make jackrabbit starts but uses only half as much gasoline as the sports car. Picture Researcher Suzanne Richie has...
It is in the cyanotypes that this greater skill and manipulation has its greatest success. Basically, a cyanotype is a blueprint, and in the early twentieth century they had only a novelty value. The exhibit shows two 1905 cutesy postcards and a print of the Pavillion of the French Colonies...
What turns a normal woman into a Harlequin junkie? The formula requires three ingredients: an exotic setting (Rome, the Caribbean, Africa), a demure heroine whose modest station in life is similar to the reader's, and a usually rich, arrogant hero who initially patronizes the heroine, then sweeps her...