Word: orientale
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THE great and inventive people who settled 5,500 years ago in Mesopotamia, the land between the rivers Tigris and Euphrates (now part of Iraq), founded one of the world's first major civilizations. But only in this century have scholars come to know the Sumerians with any thoroughness...
Gradually his primitivism disappeared, but no matter how mature his brush became or how rich his palette, his paintings never lost their Oriental lilt. His women were sensuous and thoroughly American, but they were nearly always by themselves, sad and impassive. What impressed him about the West was not its...
Continuum of Mankind. If a dancer is good, she suggests purely and superbly the fundamental mechanics of ancestry and progeny-the continuum of mankind. But a great many of what Variety calls the "cooch terpers" are considerably less cosmic than that. Each dancer follows the ancient Oriental pattern-she glides...
¶ Jemela (surname: Gerby), 23, seems Hong Kong Oriental but has a Spanish father and an Indian mother, was born in America and educated at Holy Cross Academy and Textile High School, says she learned belly dancing at family picnics.
How To Sit Down. According to Estrada, no similar oriental-looking objects have been found elsewhere in Central or South America. His theory is that a small group of people from across the Pacific found their way to Ecuador, perhaps were shipwrecked near Bahia and founded a colony there. Some...