Word: exoticism
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Amply basted, you are sent to bake in the Herbal Wrap Room, a darkened chamber with a flickering brick fireplace. As you climb onto a bed, you are rolled like a tortilla into sheets soaked in a steaming brew of "21 exotic Oriental herbs." When done to a spicy turn...
High Fever. The pollution-control industry is smaller than the big-dollar amounts might indicate. About 1,000 companies claim to be in the act, but only 200 to 300 have any real stake. Among them are Betz Laboratories, Re-search-Cottrell, American Air Filter, Sy-bron and Zurn Industries...
The searchers at Franklin Russell's gulf are all animal-birds, fish and exotic organisms blindly following or seeking loopholes in the natural order. Although the geographic coordinates are fictional, the author acknowledges the gulfs resemblance to Canada's Gulf of St. Lawrence. "Either Gulf," he comments, "may...
Recently, the society forced London stores to stop filling orders for lion cubs and other exotic pets by charging "cruel and inhuman treatment." Though it regards fox hunting as a "humane" way of keeping the vulpine population from overrunning Britain's farms, the society is waging war on other...
DURING Christmas Vacation, I was smuggled into Mexico. I had driven down to the border station at Tijuana from my family's home in Beverly Hills, which is not in fact, an El Dorado filled with Beverly Hillbillies mansions. I was with two friends, one a Harvard freshman who had...