Word: exoticized
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So ignore the fact that Spoon is now more than a decade into a career that's as deep in critical praise as commercial shrugs. Ignore it not simply because critical unanimity is a turnoff but because it tends to be conferred on the educational or exotic. Spoon's sixth...
Ed Hamilton has a rough job, but somebody's gotta do it. The Florida-born chemical engineer cruises the Caribbean on his 44-ft. cutter in search of the world's best rums. He's not looking for the pale stuff you guzzle with Coca-Cola; he's out for...
Lisa Cullen's July 2 Essay "Demoting the Dog" arrived just in time to explain the torment I experienced when my master's daughter visited with the first grandchild. I thought I was "top dog" since the kids moved out of the house, but now I am close to being...
Meanwhile, friends in other places sent long e-mails about their culinary adventures in Manhattan and abroad: the French bakeries, the exotic cheeses, the alcohol.
That may be why he found Herodotus good company. Travels is actually two interwoven stories: Kapuscinski's account of working in India, China, Egypt, Sudan, Congo and Ethiopia; and Herodotus' colorful observations on customs and conflicts in the equally exotic lands he visited. (Like Kapuscinski, he was accused of exaggerating...