Word: exoticize
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It is a measure of Chatwin's flamboyance that, scarcely 11 years after his death, he has already inspired two indelible biographies. Susannah Clapp's With Chatwin, of two years ago, was as sleek and elliptical and unorthodox as its subject, and gave us the man as he looked from...
Spring may be a while off yet, but don't tell that to Harvard students. Now that we've come back from our exotic intersession destinations, tanned or sporting chic new Parisian outfits, we're ready to hit the dating scene. Without homework or exams to interfere with our morning...
Wearing black leather and high-heeled boots, Angelina Jolie walks across her Beverly Hills hotel room toward me, holding a serrated knife in her hand. The alluring co-star of Girl, Interrupted has a lurid fascination with sharp metal objects--exotic daggers, tattoo needles, the works. She has even confessed...
In the past couple of years, high-speed powerboats have begun making the run, smuggling human cargo in a matter of hours for thousands of dollars a head. (Some poor Cubans, who can't afford the steep price, pay their way with exotic birds captured in the forest and sold...
...doeuvre. The set design, in particular, contrasts the real and the imagined, the familiar and the foreign, the west and the non-west. The first set, where the male protagonists first discuss their desire to play Earnest, is a wonderful mix of European fin-de-siecle charm and the exoticism of the East. Long silk saris drape the fabric wall paper of this 19th century English drawingroom. A hookah adorns the mantelpiece, and a Gaugin-like scene of Tahiti floats above a Rodin-like Cupid. Set Designer Nithya Raman '02 has adroitly brought an exotic, mystical flavor to her European...