Word: exoticization
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Yet if Falsettoland depicts a special world, it does not require a special audience. Doubtless many gays attend, as actor Lonny Price puckishly implies during the prologue by pointing flashlights into the house as he sings the word homosexuals. But a once exotic Manhattan world has become familiar, and its...
Half the compounds are manufactured by chemical and pharmaceutical companies; the rest are provided by botanists and ethnobiologists who collect folk medicines and exotic living materials like the bark of the Pacific yew tree, from which scientists extract Taxol, shown to be effective against ovarian cancer cells. The researchers are...
Nor is Saddam's biggest asset, his 1 million-man military, in danger of fading away. Iraq has stockpiled conventional weapons and spare parts and is continuing to assemble exotic ones -- including missiles and chemical warheads. "Iraq is reasonably well stocked with parts and ammunition, but only until a shooting...
Large animals can be either killed or removed, but that sometimes causes problems of another sort: a burro-shooting program at the Grand Canyon had to be halted after a public outcry. In Hawaii Volcanoes National Park, though, a population of 15,000 or so feral goats was reduced to...
Neutrinos are the phantoms of the subatomic world. They seem to have no mass, may travel at the speed of light and are virtually impossible to detect. According to the standard theories of physics, these exotic particles are produced by various nuclear reactions. Quadrillions of neutrinos from the sun bombard...