Word: exoticism
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Visually there can be no complaints about Shangri-La. Peter Larkin's sets have beauty, atmosphere, even-by musicome-dy standards-moderation; and Irene Sharaff offers charmingly exotic and ceremonial costumes. But what is most impressive about the evening could be almost as well conveyed in a stereopticon show...
The only Japanese graduating in Princeton's class of '25 was a short, bespectacled cherub whose classmates all called him "Seaweed." Yoshio Osawa pinned the nickname on himself, because whenever he was asked about the exotic tidbits he was often seen munching, he invariably made a kelpish response...
Fashion trends for this summer will be as exotic as the Orient, as sleek as sheaths, as versatile as two-season designing will permit, and as fashionable as ever. Both women's and men's clothing will essentially follow convention, yet there will be twists of the bizarre.
Author Schiemer sometimes clumps through his plot in Hollywooden shoes, but redeems himself by capturing the sights and sounds and smells of Egypt with the freshness of a documentary filmed on location. Like Paul Bowles's more accomplished novel, The Spider's House, set in French Morocco, The...
Dinner After Dinner. As Baba moves to her formal Indian betrothal, the characters of Nehru's India pass her eye. With the cruelty of youth and the precision of familiarity, Baba ticks them off. There is the strangely pathetic princeling drinking his schooners of champagne and serving a New...