Word: exoticism
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Abortion drugs come in two forms: 1) pills and 2) paste. To get around the law, the pills masquerade as something else (sample label: "An aid to delayed menstruation caused by cold or exposure to inclement weather"). They generally contain ergot, quinine, apiol oil or various exotic substances, none of...
The author of this novel about China visited China briefly years ago, and has never been back. Since then Minnesota-born Holger Cahill, 54, has headed the WPA Art Project, and written an able biography of U.S. soldier-of-fortune Frederick T. ("Chinese") Ward. This long, rich novel is as...
On "Midnite at Eddie Condon's" and "Inside on the Outside" clarinetist Ed Hall pulling for the old timers and Charley Shavers for the new-have a seesaw tug of war over a weird New Orleans type of riff intricately decorated by Dave Tough's exotic drumming. Joe Sullivan's...
Last week, in her chilly but elegant Paris apartment, Cléo, past 70, looked about 40. Her hair was still brown and luxuriant, parted demurely in the middle as it was in the great exotic days. She had no wrinkles on her face or hands-only her once incomparable...
Stewart plays a small-town boy who yearns to run away, explore far, exotic places and make his name in the big city. But family and dull duty hold him down to his father's piddling building & loan business. With a sense of deep frustration, he plunges into his...