Word: exoticization
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What often passes for Asian ghettos bustle with the pride and promise of middle-class America with an exotic cast. Churches hold services in English -- and Korean, Chinese and Tagalog. The curved eaves of Buddhist temples share suburbia with the flat roofs of ranch-style homes. Asian shopping malls are...
As she goes, however, a once horrified supervisor begins to be intrigued by her willful residence in a world of myth and melodrama and soon joins in exotic games -- such as acting out the execution of Mary, Queen of Scots, except for the fatal bits. Lettice and her friend strive...
Easier but wrong. Because, as strange as the notion may seem to those who view opera as Dr. Johnson's "exotic and irrational entertainment," art matters. It matters in Czechoslovakia, where a playwright has become President; in East Germany, where a Leipzig conductor, Kurt Masur, was a spiritual leader of...
Despite the increasingly technical nature of their field, many archaeologists say that it is still the lure of the exotic, and the quest of unlocking the secrets of the past, that is at the heart of archaeology.
Perhaps this is an idea whose time has come. The intellectual attic is stuffed now. Urgent, exotic pieces of lumber (like Nagorno-Karabakh and Baku and Soweto and Tadzhikistan and Violeta Chamorro and Yegor Ligachev and Tadeusz Mazowiecki and Sisulu and Umberto Eco, on and on) are gathering in the...