Word: exoticism
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According to Epps. the reasons people leave are divided into six categories-draft, personal, travel, study, financial, and "exotic". The "exit" reasons are those which do not fit into any other category.
Making the social scene in Paris, where she is enjoying all kinds of exotic thrills-such as Rothschilds, raw chestnuts, Vicomtesse Jacqueline de Ribes, and steak tartare-pretty Dewi Sukarno, 30, a widow of the late President of Indonesia, keeps her rather notable shape with judo. "It's very...
Burning Bars. The equipment companies have struck a particularly rich lode in protecting banks against burglars. "In the postwar era," says Philip Zenner, Mosler Safe Company's marketing vice president, "this country has developed by far the best-educated class of criminals we have ever had." Thus the companies...
Beyond its entertainment value, the book offers a remarkable glimpse into the personal lives of Arab multitudes, Arab attitudes toward justice, money and women become apparent as one microcosm of society applies its energies to Omar's dilemma. Thanks to the author's effortless narrative, the reader hurtles...
. . . In the Highlands Since Time Immemorial, by Joanna Ostrow. The story of a Belfast boy in the remote Scottish highlands makes an exotic, lyrical first novel.