Word: exoticism
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The film's phenomenology of sensation applies to the objects Why notices as well as the mode in which she perceives them. Poison daggers, animals' heads, all the exotic furnishings of Frederique's house in St. Tropez assume an irrational importance because Why, like a child, has an experience limited...
In her novel In Transit, Brigid Brophy visualizes the whole modern world as an airport waiting room, calling it, "a droplet of the twentieth century; pure, isolated, rare twentieth century." She must have been thinking of Paris' Orly Airport. When they land at Orly, tourists are only 14 miles...
Reduced to essences, the exotic Buendias become immediate-yet mythically compelling like Tolstoy's Rostov family, or the doomed scions of Faulkner's Sartoris. But One Hundred Years is more than a family chronicle. The author is really at work on an imaginative spiritual history of any or...
FOR most earthlings with less exotic plans, a total solar eclipse is a once-in-a-lifetime experience. It occurs only once every 360 years at any one place on the earth's surface, and the eastern U. S. can't expect another one in this century. "So we recommend...
The art of food is a total effect, localizing itself in the stomach. We digest not only the dish but the feeling of being in the room and among the people around us. For this reason, if you're eating out inexpensively, I suggest a few places whose food, supplemented...