Word: exoticism
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Henry Kissinger was on the wing again, with another of those exotic itineraries: Bangkok, Vientiane, Hanoi, Hong Kong and Peking. Flying with him were U.S. hopes for an imminent cease-fire in Laos, for a gradual end to the Cambodia fighting and for new assurances that the settlement in Viet...
The missionaries were more recognizable, being priests (albeit of an odd religion), scholars and men of action. In the next 90 years, Occidentals got a precarious foothold in traditional Japan; they were expelled in the 17th century and did not return for two centuries, until Commodore Perry's expedition...
In Bayungumay and a few others, an ancient spirit survives. She flees to the mountains, leaving her green-eyed daughter to grow into an exotic and desirable commodity. Sometimes a drawing-room doll, sometimes a field hand.
Conor Cruise O'Brien continues to inform and dismay. He is an Irishman of Catholic ancestry and sympathies, whose family circle included agnostics, anticlericals and persons whom an old-fashioned liberal would call "emancipated." An exotic heritage, by Irish standards anyway, which perhaps accounts for his penchant for exposing...
Made in 1969 for Italian television, this mesmeric film is only now being released in America, in the wake of the wide acclaim for Bertolucci's The Conformist and in anticipation of the brouhaha over Last Tango in Paris (TIME cover, Jan. 22). Perhaps Tango may not SO much...