Word: exoticism
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Overwhelmed by the turbulent revolution, some painters found relief in a nostalgic sense of the past. The idealism of Hellenism served to mirror the heroics of Napoleon. And in recognizing contemporary figures as viable subjects, painters became aware that a struggling peasant could also have a kind of nobility. Travels...
It will be the kind of show that only the British Crown can put on, with each member of the royal family playing his or her role. Elizabeth is perforce the straight man in the act, who underdoes everything with a flawlessness that creates its own suspense. At the other...
Cortazar displays his own exotic humor best in a section entitled "The Instruction Manual." As if briefing a group of anthropologists from Uranus, he details precise ways to cry, sing, climb stairs and comb hair: "There's something like a bone wing from which extends a series of parallels...
Indeed, its first cover story, May 19, 1961, was a report on the American tourists' expanding affection for far places. Ever since, its columns have covered new resorts, foreign fashions, exotic foods. For this week's cover story on Guide Writer Temple Fielding, who did not really invent...
Researchers have tried to explain the irregular incidence of stomach cancer on the basis of race, soils and a host of variables in eating and drinking habits. So far, even the most hopeful clues have led to dead ends. Last week, however, a U.S. researcher suggested an exotic explanation for...