Word: exoticisms
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The New Deck. Emanuel's cloak-&-dagger manner and his name (his mother merely liked the name Victor, had no thought of Italy's ex-King) have caused some to suspect him of having an exotic foreign background. Actually, V.E. is as endemically American as flapjacks and maple...
The facts were few, but exotic. At Fountainebleau, Ho appeared as a saintly-looking little man who liked to present roses to lady reporters. He had started his underground political career 35 years ago at 19, when his radical father was imprisoned by an unsympathetic Viet Nam emperor. He ran...
Despite its two-hour length, "Caesar and Cleopatra" never begins to take shape. At every moment it seems as if the action and dialogue might move towards some unity, and then the cameral swings back to the spectacle of a thousand exotic extras milling in the shadow of a fabulous...
Sir George and Lady Ida had three children. Edith, the eldest, is the sad-looking, six-foot, sixtyish spinster now renowned for her exotic garb, her exotic prose, her "glittering plinths of jacynth" poetry. The elder son and successor to the title is Osbert: traveler, memoirist, novelist, literary crony of...
Unwisely, too, Welles's extravaganza from time to time pauses for identification as a musical comedy. But the love interest, the exotic dances and Cole Porter's tired tunes merely check the pace without livening the party.