Word: exoticisms
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Hemingway and Hollywood have never been a very good match. The moviemakers have tended to play up Papa's most blatant streaks in mawkish romances (A Farewell to Arms), pseudo-profound he-man heroics (For Whom the Bell Tolls) and farragoes of exotic drinks, sports and angst (The Sun...
Don't laugh too loudly. Schlock news is distributed in national publications which reach millions of American readers with stories of uncanny happenings in politics and science, weird adventures in exotic settings like Antartica and Peoria, and the all-important goings-on of movie and television "celebrities."
A perennial headache is the exotic structures' attraction for curiosity seekers and peckers. Bill Woods, who manufactures hardware for geodesics in Phoenix, and lives with his family in three connected domes, recalls looking up from dinner one night to find three people peering in one window, two at another...
Hot and Loose. Ferrer's imagery has always been audacious and aggressive; its colors are about as subtle as the parlor of a San Juan cathouse. But its ambition is unshakable, even obsessive: to render an account of exotic travel as refracted through a Puerto Rican background and an...
Tourism slumped for a variety of reasons. Cheap charter flights have drawn Americans to other exotic places. Tourists heard rumors of coups (that never took place) and decided to stay away. A few heavily publicized murders of American tourists sharpened the business decline. To allay fears, the government has reinforced...