Word: exoticisms
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THE COMPUTERS that have fore-gone the real world for experimentation in the laboratory have gained exotic accomplishments. A plaque and a trophy sit atop the PDP-6 computer in M.I.T.'s Artificial Intelligence Lab. They were won in chess tournaments. Even psychiatry is tainted. An M.I.T. computer offers comfort...
Much of the impetus comes from the exotic costumes dreamed up by youth, and the watchword is "Do your own thing." The situation has traditional designers up tight. Old standard setters, like Balenciaga, have retired. Others, like Saint Laurent, reach for youth by focusing increasingly on less expensive ready-to...
Norman Mailer, who has had his literary ups and downs, feels that the national political conventions have "encouraged some of his very best writing." This year's conventions are no exception - they may indeed have encouraged his best. With a minimum of the compulsive self-analysis that has characterized...
TUESDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES (NBC, 8:30-11 p.m.). Saratoga Trunk (1945). Hollywood's version of Edna Ferber's 1941 bestseller about the romance between a roving gambler (Gary Cooper) and an exotic Creole (Ingrid Bergman). Repeat.
Kahn has transferred the play's locale to present-day India. On entering the theatre, the audience is greeted by Will Steven Armstrong's lovely exotic setting. High above the stage are two long straight trumpets suggestive of the ceremonial karna of the Hindus or the rag-dung of the...