Word: exoticisms
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More impressive than the obvious import of Miss Booth to play Lola is Hal Wallis' choice of Daniel Mann, the director of Sheba on Broadway, to film the screen version. Mann makes William Inge's portrait of frustration and wasted lives even more harrowing on film than it was on...
For U.S. readers, Author Duras' characters will have something of the fascination and strangeness of people from an exotic, outdoor Snake Pit. In France, where the book has already been published, it should confirm the widespread French conviction that there's no place like home.
Harvardmanship is not wholly a matter of confusing friends and section men about one's academic and social ability. It is essential that the candidate for an of at least one superficial field. Many have found the ability to order an exotic meal quite satisfactory.
Even so, Dr. Ellinger thought it would be a good idea if one of the younger women came to Manila so that he could study her language. Unafraid of her exotic appetite, he gave up the idea only when he learned her price: 50 pesos plus his hand in marriage...
The result, murkily photographed in a process called Exotic Color, is a harem-scarum movie featuring girls in Arabian nighties, goats-milk baths, and raids on caravans laden with gold. The dialogue seems more Hollywood than Bagdad. Sample: "Sire, I have uncovered such crimes as will tear this town wide...