Word: exoticize
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As an environment writer, I have always been doubtful of the value of "ecotourism." It seemed harmless at best, a scam at worst - a way to assuage the guilty conscience of travelers spending thousands of dollars to jet off to exotic locales. It was never clear to me, for instance...
Here's why: because real Real Americans defy stereotypes. The real Real America has become both more homogeneous (more chain stores, less local flavor) and more heterogeneous (the "exotic" is less exotic--McDonald's sells lattes and chipotle wraps). This is America today: the real people borrow from the fake...
They run, March, curse, fight, sing--and occasionally die--on a cavernous expanse of stage nearly half a football field wide. In their dress-up uniforms, they're an exotic-looking bunch: wearing kilts, playing bagpipes, sporting tam-o'-shanters with a red feather. This Scottish army regiment seems out...
Entering the endgame of a presidential election, gloves come off and campaigns often resort to less-than-honorable tactics to energize supports or sow doubt among an opponent’s potential voters. The McCain-Palin ticket has epitomized this fourth-quarter retreat into murky tactics, for example, with its...
“The Language of Color” is the comprehensive epitome of the maxim “show, don’t tell,” with its digital media, still-life photos, and taxidermy specimens. The exhibit, which is on display at the Harvard Museum of Natural...