Word: exoticism
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Bulgaria's Balkan is hardly the traveler's dream airline. Pilots do not land; they slap the planes onto the ground. Darkly exotic stewardesses dispense local drinks in tranquilizing amounts. Balkan rates last in ground efficiency, ends its flights at a scruffy terminal in Sofia. The restaurant is...
Trim and compact (5 ft. 9½ in.), the easygoing Haise is married to his high school girl friend, Mary Grant. The match seems ideal. Haise is a devoted family man. Mary is totally immersed in astronaut life and needs little help in translating the exotic technical language her husband...
The scene is slightly exotic-the imaginary South American republic of Camaguay-but the war is of a kind that is becoming all too familiar. American forces are aiding a local dictator in trying to wipe out a terrorizing Communist guerrilla army. What the book amounts to is an intimate...
The wedding night is spent in a bower on the edge of a clearing in the jungle, Merilee and Sam and Girl and Alfred surrounded by oleanders and watched over by the spirit of the jade-eyed jaguar and most of the children of Palenque, who hang like exotic globed...
In the dark they swerved off the freeway to the store for bungalow paint. Merilee plowed the aisles, selecting her barn reds to match her tangerines, and left Sam and the keeds to pay. When they caught up. Merilee and Stefan were across the street in front of the garden...