Word: exoticization
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What's a visit to Washington without a souvenir snapshot with the White House as a backdrop? If you are a VIP tourist like sunny Suzanne Somers or smooth Donald Sutherland, however, the memento is a little more exotic. Shooting scenes in the capital for Nothing Personal, a comedy...
Opera: An exotic and irrational entertainment -Samuel Johnson
If only Dr. Johnson could have been in the Colorado Rockies last week. The Aspen Music Festival put on an exotic and deliberately irrational entertainment in which clowns, jugglers and acrobats capered across the stage. Flames shot up from nowhere. Flowers sprouted suddenly in a spittoon. A chorus stalked the...
"The greatest contribution to civilization in this century may well be air conditioning-and America leads the way." So wrote British Scholar-Politician S.F. Markham 32 years ago when a modern cooling system was still an exotic luxury. In a century that has yielded such treasures as the electric knife...
Despite such exotic bottles from which to quaff, connoisseurs sometimes actually prefer the ordinaire. In a blind taste test of ten waters, organized by New York Times Food Critic Craig Claiborne, all five judges ranked Canada Dry Club Soda-a nonmineral beverage containing "sodium bicarbonate, sodium citrate and artificial flavoring...