Word: exoticism
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As any reader of Sax Roehmer knows, the main trade of Shanghai is skulking about and plotting about international intrigues. So any picture with "Shanghai" in its title has quite a chore to prove itself worthy of the exotic name.
Battle on the Boulevard. The mortar shells and the ultimatum were fired at the struggling new state of South Viet Nam (pop. 10.5 million) by a war lord named General Le Van Vien-a man who used to be a river pirate and now runs the Binh Xuyen (pronounced bin...
The ultimatum came from the leaders of three religious-political sects* of South Viet Nam, an exotic consortium of religious fanatics, feudal warlords, uniformed hoodlums and racket bosses bound loosely behind an ambitious general who keeps pet crocodiles. Together, the sects have private armies of some 40,000 men. Their...
¶ Colombians had offers from New Orleans ice-cream makers to import the country's exotic curuba fruit juice; Esteve Brothers in Dallas were thinking of investing in a cotton project; Cerro de Pasco Corp. was hoping to put new money into Colombian copper mines.
The Purple Plain (J. Arthur Rank; United Artists) has something new and exotic to recommend it: a stunning 21-year-old Burmese beauty named Win Min Than, which means "brilliant a thousandfold." When she shimmers into focus in a screen-size closeup with a tremulous smile on her lips, sympathetic...