Word: exoticization
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Seminars range from the ordinary to the exotic. "There's everything from Old English works to contemporary novels about Vietnam, from the Mayas to pop culture in England," Denault said. One class, limited to two or three students and taught by Herbert W. Levi, professor of zoology and biology, will...
From H.G. Wells' The Invisible Man to Topper, unseen characters have terrorized towns and caused comic chaos. The tradition now moves into the business world with a much touted and timely new book: Memoirs of an Invisible Man, the first novel by Harry F. Saint, a New York City real...
To eager developers, Big Bend conjured up visions of condos and tennis courts: 64,000 acres of wetlands stretching along 60 miles of the Gulf Coast of Florida. Hardwood hammocks, saw grass, palms, brackish scrub. Teeming with many exotic -- as well as threatened and endangered -- species such as alligators, manatees...
Cambodian Witness begins, happily enough, with an easeful and exotic tour of prerevolutionary life in the capital of Phnom Penh, where May's father was a doctor. The narrator's earliest memory is of fighting with his siblings for the free toy inside his mother's packages of Tide, and...
Although the literary diet provided by her family was large and exotic, the food was anything but. "My maternal grandmother was in residence during most of my childhood, and she decided what we would eat. She believed in having only the simplest food -- always fish on Friday, very little meat...