Word: exoticisms
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An Exotic Taste. Rummaging in history's attic, the University of Nebraska's John Alden has dusted off the controversial figure of Lee in the first full-scale biography in 90 years. Though overly clotted with petty details, Biographer Alden's book goes far toward clearing Lee...
The rest of The King and I ripples shimmeringly along. The Rodgers score-which eschews exotic Bali-Hijinks-is thoroughly pleasant, with the gaiety of I Whistle a Happy Tune, the lilt of Getting to Know You, the marchlike verve of The Royal Siamese Children, which introduces to Anna and...
A rich young Frenchman (Louis Jourdan), fed up with Western civilization, accompanies a college friend, Polynesian Jeff Chandler, to his exotic island home. The kahuna (medicine man) puts a curse on him. A white derelict (Everett Sloane), banished to an outlying island for committing aboriginal sin, warns him that the...
Onstage, Maria looks as regal and exotic as a Russian princess; offstage, she is as American as wampum and apple pie. The daughter of a full-blooded Osage Indian and a Kansas farm girl, Maria was sent off to dancing school by her mother, at five. It was the same...
Hanslick began to find Wagner "neither a great musician nor a great poet. He can be called at best . . . a decorative genius." His instrumentation, the critic wrote, "with its clever use of tone colors and its elastic application to the text . . . is what makes Wagner's music seem dazzlingly...