Word: exoticism
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Both coffees manage to create more than a dozen exotic varities from the basic grinds. Cappucino and Mocha are the most popular at the Capriccio. To make the cappucino, a cinammon stick is mixed in the coffee. Tulla prepares an `"angel's bosom" which is sugared Cuban blend topped with...
But since there are always some people who want to get emotionally involved in their entertainment, and since producer Mike Todd obviously set out to please everybody, the picture even has a plot. Adapted by humorist S. J. Perelman from a novel by Jules Verne, the story relates the adventures...
A gentle, ruddy-faced man of 53 with curly, greying hair. Gross haunts the lumber yards of New York searching for wood, particularly such exotic varieties as the bright red cocobola from Colombia, ebony from Africa, red-brown rosewood from Brazil, golden-brown teakwood from Burma, striped tigerwood from Nigeria...
Miri is a grave Greek girl with long black eyelashes and long brooding silences who goes to an eastern U.S. college. At a nearby school is her cousin Lexy-mercurial, unkempt, rude and life-intoxicated. Lexy's roommate Josh is well-rooted in America but emotionally rootless, blond, bland...
The next surface we reach is less pleasant; many of those taken with the exotic air of Europe equate a dashing, alien air with uncleanliness. And indeed the air around them often seems to have a dash of something in it, and sometimes does serve the purpose of alienation.