Word: exoticisms
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If there is one career path that captures the essence of post-bubble Japan, it is "failed real estate speculator." During the '80s and early '90s, real estate speculation had been the frothy center of Japan's double-espresso economy, with developers and brokers becoming that era's version of...
That admiration, as you may have guessed, does not spill over into my regard for the brainiacs in Washington. Would it have been easier to just raise the price of a first-class stamp to 35 cents, or even 36 cents, and then let us all get on with our...
Other works take more evocative, period approaches to their subjects, with often breathtaking results. In the interpretation of Gauguin’s epic “Women and a White Horse” by Cynthia Antonopoulos of the Wollaston Garden Club, exotic tropical flowers fans out like a hanging garden...
With Nobu, New Yorkers' palates and vocabularies expanded. A decade ago, when Tadashi Ono became the executive chef at the renowned La Caravelle, the owners omitted any mention in the menu of ingredients like yuzu, a tart citrus fruit, and shiso, a mint-like herb, because the exotic terms intimidated...
Murakami's protagonists stand just a little bit apart and aside in a society that has traditionally commanded full participation of its members. But they don't think of themselves as rebels, either. Mishima would hate these guys. Connoisseurs of the exotic will find little to savor here. American and...