Word: exoticisms
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There is a great deal of hectic coupling in this film, all of it staged with chintzy tastefulness, as if the participants were being arranged for a department-store window display. The exotic Far Eastern locations make for a few postcard snaps and a lot of unintentionally hilarious dialogue. Murmurs...
I would like to thank TIME for its coverage of the potential for energy recovery from municipal garbage. It is important, though, that we not create other kinds of pollution problems in dealing with solid waste. I am thinking of the air pollution problems traditionally associated with municipal incinerators. Clearly...
Pro athletes also follow more exotic pursuits. Earlie Thomas, a cornerback for the New York Jets, spends his off seasons chasing bugs as he works toward a master's in entomology at Colorado State. The subject of his thesis: "The Different Effects of Cultural Methods on Bathyplectes Curculionis and...
The young beagle on our cover is the seventh animal to achieve that distinction without being accompanied by its owner. The earlier covers sported race horses and canine celebrities. This week's dog is a relative nobody who symbolizes America's exploding pet population, the subject of our...
Status Symbols. "It is truly amazing," wrote Psychiatrist Karl Menninger, "to what extent popular taste permits libidinous attachments to animals without clear recognition of their essentially sexual nature" (though, admittedly, it is hard to envision even a subliminal sexual relationship between humans and such pets as alligators, bats, cobras, hedgehogs...