Word: exoticisms
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HE WROTE poems celebrating the marriage of flesh and air. He loved the sensuousness of mere being, loved the texture of things, and he treasured the rare, the exotic, and the lush. His poems are figured with rings of men chanting in orgy on summer mornings, with girls named Bawda...
Nonetheless, the new designs themselves were intriguing. One after another, the French designers displayed collections calculated to capture, if not the same bulk of orders from U.S. buyers, at least the fancy of women everywhere. Men might not be so enraptured: hems left not a hint of calf exposed, let...
Weathier tourists are seeking more recondite or merely more ostentatious excursions. At the end of May, the Matson Lines' Monterey sailed from San Francisco with passengers who had paid from $1,510 to $4,565 to visit the Galapagos Islands, where Charles Darwin once pondered the origin of species...
Innocent Victims. The trouble is that cities are full of lonely people who rely on dogs as substitute friends, spouses and children. Many a furnished room contains a small human and a huge Great Dane or similar beast. Some homosexuals use exotic breeds as props for pickups. In Manhattan'...
Cultural Carpetbagger. In his unique and cheerful way, Author Desani is a one-man tower of Babel, a cultural carpetbagger who hawks the flotsam and jetsam of at least five civilizations and three continents, with odd lots of Latin, Shakespeare and the Bible thrown in. His peculiar comic note derives...