Word: exoticisms
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Wild and exotic music came from that keyboard: scenes of massacre and battle and hell. There were (see color) the funereal chords of his Hamlets, the lyric melancholy of some of his portraits, the emotional rhythms of his still lifes. History has cast Delacroix in the role of the great...
As anyone who is not a native New Yorker knows, there is no form of provincialism more acute than too long a confinement on Manhattan Island. Most of our writers and researchers, for one reason or another, come from other parts of the U.S., are alternately exhilarated or frustrated by...
Germany's Ruhr, the great Pittsburgh and Ohio Valley complex, Russia's Do nets Basin - the areas where vast resources and power combine-long ago made their fabulous mark. Another of the world's great areas, in the eyes of geopoliticians, is just beginning to touch its...
The only U.S. industry that creates its products out of thin air is the $1 billion-a-year industrial gas business, which is becoming as expansive as the exotic gases that are making it prosper. By compressing air until it liquefies, the industry extracts various gases whose temperatures are close...
Hair Is a Flower. He had two favorite themes, women and flowers. For him, a woman's hair was like some kind of exotic plant that swirled and swooped with a life of its own. A woman did not wear clothes: she let silks and satins flow over her...