Word: exoticism
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When Farah Diba, an Iranian Girl Scout, and basketball captain of her Teheran school, married the Shah of Iran in 1959, Iranian women were traditionally considered to have "more hair than brains." However, by 1963 Farah's influence on the Peacock Throne was obviously being felt: the Shah gave...
At first glance, they seem to be some kind of exotic aquatic life photographed against a background of seaweed. But the spherical creatures portrayed in the pictures taken by scientists from Manhattan's Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and Rockefeller University swim not in the sea but in the...
To the accompaniment of four pages of color photographs, Associate Editor William Bender this week discusses a unique, and one of the oldest musical forms in the world, the exotic Peking Opera of Taiwan. The opera company's productions are a far cry from the works of George Gershwin...
2) THE SPARTAN. As the international Olympics take on the tones of factionalism and hypocrisy, professional sport looks almost sanitary. There are no exotic pennants to salute, no speeches of sportsmanship or geopolitical ideals.
The restaurant, patronized by the area's Japanese population, is divided into three parts roughly according to the kind of food served in each. The most exotic, and least crowded, section is the raw fish, or sushi, bar. Osaka's sushi is as good as any you are likely to...