Word: exoticism
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"The Sick Rose" is one of Blake's finest poems, and it is also the short masterpiece of this album. With guitar and organ, Ginsberg performs the song with an exotic, perhaps Arabian, sound. Its simple imagery takes on allegorical power subtly symbolizing the corruption that disillusioning experience tells us...
Most rock bands enthusiastically imitate one another. Small wonder, then, that an original and distinctive group like Santana has taken flight like a Poseidon missile exploding out of a sea of mediocrity. Santana triples the basic rhythmic element of rock. Flailing away in the midst of a dozen percussion instruments...
Rustic Trompe I'Oeil. The results of this technique, at least when Porter was painting, were fresh and simple, but they were marked with the authoritative vision of a minor master. With great tact, Porter blended Hawaiian volcanoes and exotic foliage with views of neat New England farms and...
Elsewhere West taps against his daughter's silence with exuberant wordplay. In a dazzling tour de force he compiles a looping, digressionary dictionary of her vocabulary, from "agnoo" (thank you) to "zwingh" (swing). He projects Mandy into the future as a kind of wholesome blonde Barbarella, zipping through time...
Frederick's was the first in the country to conceive crotchless panties ("an exotic addition to your wardrobe"), the inflatable bra ("blow yourself up to your favorite size"), girdles with padded bottoms ("for unrivaled curves"), foundations without any bottoms ("the living end"), bras with holes in the middle ("a...