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Fiji is a $509.51 ticket from Pueblo, Colo., and 6,700 air miles away; Tanganyika and Atlanta are separated by 9,400 miles and $745.98 in air fare; Thailand and Passaic, N.J., by 10,500 miles and $694.46. Hard to get to, all those distant places-and expensive. Yet, in...
Washbasin Roof. By the age of 30, when Jeanneret was ready to leave La Chaux-de-Fonds for good ("The Swiss are cleanly and industrious and to hell with them"), he had put up a couple of chalets, an exotic dwelling of screaming yellows called the Turkish Villa, and a...
SWETZOFF GALLERY: Rather exotic sculpture of Richard Boyce. Showing through May 13.
As his first anniversary approached, Antony Armstrong-Jones, 31, explained how he had been spending his spare time. With old razor blades and matchsticks, Princess Margaret's husband had whiled away the hours putting together a spiky, architectural fantasy to house the London Zoo's exotic birds. Tony...
Though his menu lists such exotic items as Bongo Bongo Soup, Javanese Sate and Bah-Mee, they are really American versions (or inventions) for American palates. "Take a Tahitian pudding made with arrowroot," says the Trader. "It's so tough you can throw it and use it as a...