Word: exoticisms
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For that we have to go to India? His face still unchanged, but his body now wrapped in a robe, you can imagine Murray deadpanning. "I went to the East in search of meaning, and all I got was this robe." In return for watching Murray stare catatonically into space...
DIED. Victor Jules ("Trader Vic") Bergeron, 81, irascible, ingenious restaurateur who, starting in 1934, parlayed a tiny beer parlor in Oakland, Calif., into a San Francisco-based food and drink corporation grossing $50 million a year and featuring an international chain of 21 restaurants proffering an eclectic South Seas decor...
Aries in 1888 was a torpid provincial town, as filthy and exotic-at least to a Parisian eye as North Africa. Van Gogh's first reactions to it describe a foreign country. "The Zouaves, the brothels, the adorable little Arlésiennes going to their first Communion, the priest...
The plains of western Wyoming are today a scarred moonscape of gray hills, but 50 million years ago they were mostly swampland, lush with exotic life. Primitive lemurs swung through palm trees, while the first horse, Eohippus, a short-legged creature about the size of a fox terrier, nibbled on...
At 43, Domingo is the world's oldest corporal, and although he sings passionately, he wears the look of a man who has swallowed a very hot chili. Migenes-Johnson, of Puerto Rican and Greek descent, is an exotic beauty, but her voice is inappropriately bland, and for all...