Word: exoticisms
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As with Midnight's Children, Rushdie's second novel, The Moor's Last Sigh feels rather like magic realism, Indian style. There are curses and prophecies and general supernatural occurences, but these are offered with something that feels like scepticism: the magical may also be coincidental. This sophisticated, even jaded...
For all their discomfort, the troops try to keep in mind their mission of bringing peace to a land that has experienced unusual cruelty for almost four years. The G.I.s have been reassured by the gracious welcome they generally receive from civilians. Completion of the bridge over the Sava, which...
Brancusi was born in 1876, in a small village in Romania. He completed a long and thorough training in sculpture in Bucharest before reaching Paris, almost penniless, in 1904. He even worked briefly as a studio menial for Auguste Rodin before quitting in the realization that, as he later put...
Daniels successfully conveys the wonder and strangeness of the "brave new world" so crucial to any production of "The Tempest." He does this by appealing to his contemporary audience's idea of the exotic, as well as to a modern conception of "the other." In the middle of the scenery...
SERIAL KILLERS DON'T DESERVE much sympathy, but, Jeez, can't we leave them alone for a while? There aren't all that many multiple maniacs in the forensic literature--not nearly so many, it seems, as in the new movies. To judge from Hollywood's fall fad, folks can...