Word: exoticisms
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What do you remember about the circus? Maybe you remember gaudy costumes, or carved wooden emblazonry, or thick crowds, their collective waistline at your eye-level. Maybe you remember the smells: sawdust, roasted peanuts, canvas, hot caramel and the wet-leather-on-a-radiator musk of exotic animals.
But inevitably the anticipation of sampling exotic Southern menus killed the actual experience. The scallop and crab casserole at the Rice Planters in Myrtle Beach was drowned in Old Bay seasoning, the fried alligator was too chewy and scaly at the snooty Poogan's Porch in Charleston, and the meatloaf...
The characters in Paradise News are on vacation in Hawaii. They travel to forget their troubles and find a cure for their inherently British boredom and problems, but Bernard, Lodge's hero, has a different purpose for the packaged pilgrimage to this exotic island.
-- Curriculums will show some radical departures from the past. To justify their existence as servants of society, all schools will come under pressure to be less theoretical and more practical in preparing students for careers. There will be more emphasis on ethics as well as on science and technology, particularly...
We in the U.S. are not alone in our credulity. In China a large percentage of the public visits "Qi Gong" hospitals for diagnosis and treatment by a mystic who never touches them; he merely waves his hands about. If a patient is in a remote location and cannot visit...