Word: exoticism
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Samaras' physical context is that of American art. He is not a "Greek" artist. He moved to New York in 1948, after a childhood spent in the atmosphere of war and civil war in Greece. He was only eleven and, as he remembers it, a "trembling, mother-clutching neurotic...
We played in the same league that produced All-Pro Dick Butkus, and we played rough and hard. Fundamentals were our watchword; no fancy suburban passing, no exotic option plays, just a hard-nosed ass-kicking running game between the tackles. We played ghetto schools and working-class white schools...
> Rod Rodgers Dance Company is the creation of a comparatively recent but exciting recruit to professional dance, who in 1967 helped form the Association of Black Choreographers with the stated aim of discovering "the dancers' identity of Rhythm the Ritual, Afro in which American."the dance identity of the...
This is a show whose time has come -and long since gone. After a dazzling movie based on Rodgers1 and Hammerstein's 1951 Broadway musical The King and I, the idea of the irascible but lovable monarch of Siam who is tamed by the priggish but lovable English schoolmarm...
There are other, better reasons for the hot dog to be top dog. Crackling tidily above briquettes, steaming under vendors' umbrellas and in short-order restaurants, the frank still emits a sharp democratic zonk, redolent of exotic spices and domestic meats. To most Americans, the hot dog is the...