Word: exoticisms
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It is now twenty years since Edward Steichen's famous exhibition of The Family of Man marked the nadir of a naive photojournalism: the show's enormous worldwide success in the 1950s was just as much a tribute to the acceptability and comprehensibility of photography as a journalistic medium which...
Familiar and Exotic. Longtime customers have learned never to cross that Bridge when they come to it, for beneath the beefy, abrasive exterior is a beefy, abrasive interior. Neither the rich nor the famous escape his wrath. He recently demanded that a millionaire yachtsman put away his crummy checkbook, pay...
When Mr. Pots and Pans is not on one of his frequent buying trips to Europe, he patrols four floors of highly variegated merchandise. His cheapest item is a 5? cork, his most expensive a $500 copper pot suitable for an entire sheep. Between these terminals is a treasury of...
At 45, Yukio Mishima had written 40 novels, 18 plays, 20 volumes of short stories and as many books of essays. He was Japan's literary exotic, sometimes mentioned for the Nobel Prize-a slick self-promoter and deliberately flashy vulgarian who redeemed his excesses with a gift that...
YU. THE CHINESE word for jade, was applied to a variety of stones, all extremely hard, which were shaped and polished by the slow and painstaking process of grinding down with an abrasive, usually quartz, sand and water. Nephrite, the material most commonly used in the early periods, takes on...