Word: exoticize
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More than anything, Schrager is a stylist, and he understands that the façade of any development, whether a hotel or a residence, has to jibe with pop culture to be commercially successful. Several years ago, he started to look around for a new idea, traveling everywhere from Istanbul to...
Dar es Salaam may mean "haven of peace," but it's hard to find respite in this frenetic Tanzanian port. It's not impossible, though. Down a dusty dirt track in the Mikocheni district, a 10-minute taxi ride from the center, is Addis in Dar, an Ethiopian restaurant that...
Plenty of people point out that she's no singer - and she's not - but quality of voice has never really mattered in popular music. Really, her great gift is that she has a terrific set of ears. She listens to what's going on at the avant-garde edge...
“These sordid confrontations with reality are exotic to Harvard students, the kind of thing that they don’t know and only rarely imagine,” muses Slavitt, a Yale graduate. “Much of the purpose of going to places like Harvard and...
The mesop - Ethiopian tables woven from colored straw - are outside under the palm trees. Soft light is diffused through red and orange velvet umbrellas, and the air is filled with an exotic mix of frankincense, mosquito coils, popcorn and coffee. The dark brew is part of the spiritual and social...