Word: exoticism
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The camera has practically created a genre as the recording angel of disintegrating minds-the corroborating witness to the psychopathology of everyday life. Carnal Knowledge, Husbands, Straw Dogs all in different ways perform the basic ritual of the '70s film. Once an Ingmar Bergman specialty, the perfectly average man...
Intimate Behaviour is about body contact. Morris proposes that to consider the behavior of man as one among other animals will cast brilliant new light on what happens between people in a handclasp, a copulation, a consoling pat, an encounter group. Such a topic could be a romp and a...
If not for the newsmen and Chinese officials clustered around her, in fact, Mrs. Nixon could have passed as a typical tourist eager to take in as many sights as possible. In her visit to the Summer Palace, a 659-acre complex that was once occupied by the Dowager Empress...
THE grand jury was sending out subpoenas like invitations to an enormous masked ball, with an improbable guest list, ranging from ex-convicts to publishing executives to members of Author Clifford Irving's sometimes exotic circle on the Balearic island of Ibiza. The Howard Hughes affair was turning into...
Coles' accomplishments are perhaps best summarized by Harvard Social Scientist David Riesman: "There is one important theme he has contributed: antistereotype. Policemen are not pigs, white Southerners are not rednecks, and blacks are not all suffering in exotic misery. What he is saying is 'People are more complicated, more varied...