Word: exoticism
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Behind that statistic lay a lot of heartache. Some of the Africans attribute the difficulty to simple jealousy on the part of U.S. Negroes. Said Freddie Balogun Savage, a Stanford student from Sierra Leone: "By putting on native clothes or simply uttering a few words in our exotic accents, my...
This stuff is available only by mail from some gentleman whose company makes exotic industrial lubricants (and who is a hi-fi bug on the sly). The turntable itself is a re-worked Rek-O-Kut N33H, the motor-board which Bruce has sawed in half, suspends the motor separately...
Despite his Anglo-exotic surname, Johnny Hallyday is thoroughly French, and his fans easily outnumber De Gaulle's. The highest-paid popular singer on the Continent ($1,000 a night), he is the idol of a range of foot stompers including old burghers, young nobility, teen-aged renegades from...
Guided Tour. As a weathercock of taste, Walpole is more gilded than dependable. It soon becomes clear that he cultivates lesser things at the expense of greater ones, that his feeling for Gothic is really a love of the exotic, that his sense of the visionary is in essence a...
Not long ago, the average American thought that people who drank wine with their meals were either oddballs or foreigners-or both. The wine drinker, in short, was assumed to be either a recent immigrant who had not yet adjusted to the American way of life or a rich sybarite...