Word: exoticisms
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In 1938 Charles Boyer first lured Hedy Lamarr to the Casbah in a film called Algiers. Since then the suave Frenchman has become permanently associated with the exotic atmosphere of Algiers' native quarter. Algiers, however, was only a mellowed version of the French production Pepe le Moko, and Boyer only...
At any rate, it was not long before the strange behavior of the Salem girls goaded the town authorities to action. On March 1, 1692, Tituba and two other rather disreputable women of the neighborhood were brought to trial as witches. Surprisingly enough, Tituba readily admitted her guilt and identified...
Up to that point, the picture has at least the charm of a kind of exotic silliness-rather like finding the underwear section of the Sears Roebuck catalogue floating gravely along the upper Orinoco.
But the Clinic's most striking feature is its decoration. In this cold setting of stucco walls is a collection of oriental art more fitting for a museum than a scientific laboratory. The spoils of wanderlust have filled almost every room with exotic gifts. An undergraduate who stopped at the...
The city owes Miss Goodneighbor and her friends a groveling apology. Neither the stresses of public life nor political maneuvres should intrude in the world of art. In Boston, as elsewhere, the exotic dance should be as unfettered by censorship as it is by clothing.