Word: exoticisms
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The playwright set his story in Illyria, which was on the Adriatic coast and, in his day, under Venetian rule. The point of this, really, was to choose a spot distant from the England of 1600. For an exotic place Freedman has substituted an exotic time; he has located the...
With SALT II slicing strategic arsenals only slightly, a significant cutback will have to await SALT III. In the meantime, even more exotic weapons are on their way. In the annual "Arms Control Impact Statements," released last week, the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency hinted alarmingly at future "space...
All these pieces-carefully selected samples of what they believe to be the best of their theatrical culture-are being offered by the Performing Arts Company of the People's Republic of China. A five-city U.S. tour began last week at New York's Metropolitan Opera House...
(Even it, however, was suppressed at the height of the Cultural Revolution, and its artists sent to work the fields.) After an evening with the Chinese performing artists, one begins to see why the tumblers and jugglers, the virtuosos on exotic instruments, have been able to develop to uncanny heights...
There is a prince charming of sorts whose actions free the girl, but there is no conventional happy ending. Erendira and her supporting cast belong to the world of legend that Garcia Marquez Yoknapatawphaized out of the Colombian landscape in his lengthy masterpiece One Hundred Years of Solitude (1970). But...