Word: exoticism
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That does not mean, of course, that Americans closely follow European affairs. Quite the contrary. Since the passing of De Gaulle, Adenauer and Churchill, there have been no giant European personalities who really attract their attention, although Brandt appears to be much admired, still largely for his reputation as West...
The police might have pressed kidnaping charges against Voll's abductors except for one fact: they included his mother and father, a junior high school principal in Farmington, Conn. The Lockwood disappearance involved his father, a stockbroker in Los Angeles, plus an uncle. The black man in both cases...
"Perhaps the Vicious Virgin exotic Polynesian drink was responsible for the victory at Williams," he speculated, "but it may be that the cheap wine on the bus to New Haven accounted for the slow play at Yale Saturday morning."
IT SHOULDN'T surprise us that the totalitarian approach to politics is in fashion at the White House; it's nothing new. The leaders of the capitalist democracies have generally looked upon exotic, undemocratic forms of government with a horrid fascination--and have often doubted the efficacy and permanence of...
Mickey, played by Michael Caine, is the definitive hack, the proudly profane author of dozens of paperback thrillers, any one of which would make the novels of Mickey Spillane read like the collected works of John Ruskin. He turns out his books at the rate of 10,000 dictated words...