Word: exoticism
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The Foo Hsing Theater is a forceful reminder that Broadway starves the senses. Performing centuries-old classics. The Beautiful Bait and The White Snake, this Chinese theater troupe refreshes the eye by splashing the stage with color. It fills the air with exotic sounds. It galvanizes the playgoer physically with...
"Hello Ship," Jake Holman whispers reverently to the U.S.S. San Pablo the first time he reports aboard. His new Navy messmates fondly call their ship the "Sand Pebble," and come equipped with the kind of melting-pot surnames-like Stawski and Shanahan-preferred in U.S. service epics. The ship is...
Memphis to South America. The cargo that today's rivermen supervise is often exotic: wine gurgles along in stainless steel tanks, and other specially designed barges carry molten sulphur at 280°, methane chilled to -258°, and chlorine under 250 lbs. of pressure per sq. in. The Saturn...
Exotic Gardener. Despite all the energy he gives to Chrysler, Townsend gets home to his unpretentious ranch house in suburban Bloomfield Township almost every night for dinner and seldom brings work with him. "I've never been one who measures the quality of a job by the length of time...
Out of the Doldrums. Buchan began writing in 1895 and produced scholarly biographies of Scott and Oliver Cromwell, as well as a 1,500,000-word account of World War I. But his apparently secure niche in literary history depends on the oldest storytelling skill in the world: the ability...