Word: exoticisms
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Rarely has New York, home of showplace restaurants (if not of showplace food), seen anything quite like The Four Seasons. Such architects as Mies van der Rohe. Eero Saarinen and Philip Johnson helped to arrange its five lavish dining rooms (two public, three private). Fifteen trees of different and exotic...
The Post's columns are as exotic as its habitat, lean hard on local news: the native mother who accused a neighbor of doing in her youngest son; a warning that the dangers of capturing Papuan black snakes far outweigh their medicinal value. Periodically, readers are brought up to...
Lateef at Cranbrook (Yusef Lateef, tenor sax; Frank Morelli, baritone sax; Terry Pollard, piano; William Austin, bass; Frank Gant, drums; Argo). A quintet given to spicing the group sound with finger cymbals, a one-stringed rebab, and a scraped ram's horn turns its talents to exploring Leader-Composer...
Susan Kohner, 22, was born to the Hollywood purple. Her father, successful Agent Paul Kohner, provided a Bel Air home brightened with a portrait of Susan and her brother painted by a family friend, Diego Rivera, and other baubles to match. From her mother, Mexican Actress Lupita Tovar, she inherited...
Died. Sax Rohmer (pen name for Arthur Sarsfield Ward), about 76, creator of 20th century English fiction's most durable villain: Fu Manchu; after long illness ; in London. Modeled on a mysterious Chinese Rohmer spotted one night in 1913 in the Limehouse fog, wily, sinister Fu Manchu outwitted his...