Word: exoticism
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Hyperbole? Perhaps, but for some it did just that: Di Suvero became an inspirational figure to a circle of young artists who admired not only the vigor of his work, but also his tenacious will power. His background was both exotic and practical. Son of an Italian gunboat captain and...
"Next time I'm planning to get exotic," he says. "Things like canned rice birds -they're sort of like squab-and white fungus and the interior of bamboo shoots." M-m-m good. Is Chung-King worried?
Robbins began merchandising mirth in 1949, after he and his late brother-in-law, Burt Baskin, sold their separate dairy-store chains and began manufacturing ice cream. Their creamy dreams had begun in the New Hebrides, where Baskin was in charge of a Navy PX during World War II. He...
As Jones pulls down his traditional Southern homestead traditionally -amid murder and suicide-he strikes the mood usual to Southern novelists: a coverall elegiac sadness. It is a bad time, he suggests, for all. His sociology, to judge by nonfiction accounts, is accurate. But what emerges is less a sense...
After all, what distance could possibly separate two occasions whose circumstances are so similar. In each, hip producers intent on fantastic publicity hurriedly choose an inadequate location, throw up a scaffold, and invite hundreds of thousands of white middle-class kids to enjoy themselves. Michael Lang was instrumental in arranging...