Word: exoticisms
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Exaggeration? It is hard to exaggerate the way people caught up in scandal, sensation or fragrant doings can parlay a puddle of notoriety into oceans of money plus exotic life-styles. Culprits do it, victims do it, innocent bystanders do it. Even an ordeal equals opportunity. Rescued in the Yukon...
Katharine Hepburn writes like this -- with lots of dashes. Fragmented sentences too. Exclamations! Asides. Reading her is like listening to her -- one imagines. She suggests -- in a meandering subtitle -- that she almost lost her mind while shooting on location in 1951 in what was then the Belgian Congo. But of...
The Cosby brownstone, in Manhattan's East 60s, is similar to the one inhabited by TV's Huxtables but more distinctively furnished: with Persian carpets, mahogany sculptures and displays of exotic cut flowers. Cosby invites a stranger to the town house only when his wife and five children are away...
The film's altered states are enhanced by a soundtrack that accompanies and complements the wordless action--just what Philip Glass's music did for Koyaanisqatsi. Composer Michael Stearns presents a new age, Tangerine Dream/Andreas Vollenweider sound, adding exotic drums and bells that complete the foreign aura.
While many Harvard students windsurfed the waves, criss-crossed exotic continents, or partied hearty throughout the summer months, others whiled away those precious sun-filled afternoons answering phones in office buildings or memorizing reruns of the Brady Bunch. And some had the gall to do nothing, absolutely nothing, zippo for...