Word: exoticisms
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If architecture is frozen music, as Goethe aphorized, then jazz is Art Deco on ice. France adored that American musical invention and especially Josephine Baker, the black American singer and dancer who electrified the Paris jazz scene in the 1920s. Her sleek, exotic beauty is on display in Art Deco...
After studying the exotic wildlife of the Galápagos Islands, Charles Darwin surmised that animals can develop unique traits when they evolve in isolation. In the tennis world, Rafael Nadal is such an animal. Based on the island of Majorca, Nadal and his family shunned mainstream training programs as...
Minnesotan Brian Becker, who was already on probation for deer-smuggling in Oklahoma, was sentenced to 33 months in federal prison in November. Agents estimated that he had made at least $300,000 smuggling deer to one client in Texas. Houston businessman Robert Eichenaur was sentenced to 18 months in...
Jamaica Kincaid, world-renowned author of short stories, novels and essays, has finally returned to Harvard after a recent sabbatical. Back as a visiting lecturer, Kincaid dishes on plant collecting, the future of British journalists, and how to write—and live—well.1. FM: What?...
Just weeks after the anticipated premiere of the latest James Bond flick “Quantum of Solace,” another muscle-bound action movie full of intrigue and beautiful women hits screens. “Transporter 3” is the latest episode in a series of films...