Crossword clues for exotica
exotica
- Interesting and strange objects
- Unusual or foreign items
- Unusual stuff
- Unusual collection
- Unusual things
- Unusual objects
- Unusual foreign objects
- Stuff that's strikingly strange
- Stranger things
- Strange stuff
- Out-of-the-ordinary objects
- Odd items
- Foreign things
- Collectibles from faraway lands
- Collectibles from afar
- Botanical rarities, for example
- Bohemian stuff
- Bizarre bazaar buys
- Bizarre accumulation
- Strikingly unusual things
- Foreign objects
- Not your normal imports
- Things from faraway places
- Strange imports
- Carnival displays
- Rare imports, maybe
- Things from faraway lands
- Strange things
- Things rarely seen
- Collection of strange plants
- Curiosity shop stock
- Very foreign items
- Curios once associated with ears
- Case of earwax - ear's beginning to accumulate foreign objects
- Essentially queasy about toxic compound and strange objects
- Outlandish items
- Recalled a quote about old times in curious collection
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. 1 (plural of exotic nodot=true English) 2 curious, strange, unusual and exotic things.
Wikipedia
Exotica is a musical genre, named after the 1957 Martin Denny album of the same title, popular during the 1950s to mid-1960s, typically with suburban Americans who came of age during World War II. The musical colloquialism exotica means tropical ersatz, the non-native, pseudo experience of insular Oceania, Southeast Asia, Hawaii, Amazonia, the Andes and tribal Africa. Denny described the musical style as "a combination of the South Pacific and the Orient...what a lot of people imagined the islands to be like...it's pure fantasy though." While the South Seas forms the core region, exotica reflects the "musical impressions" of every place from standard travel destinations to the mythical " shangri-las" dreamt of by armchair safari-ers.
Exotica is a 1994 Canadian drama film set primarily in and around the fictional Exotica strip club in Toronto. It is written and directed by Atom Egoyan and stars Mia Kirshner, Elias Koteas, Sarah Polley, Bruce Greenwood and Don McKellar.
The story concerns a father grieving over the loss of a child and obsessed with a young stripper. It was inspired by Egoyan's curiosity by the role strip clubs play in sex-obsessed societies, and rules forbidding clients from touching dancers. It was filmed in Toronto in 1993. The film was a box office success and won numerous awards, including the FIPRESCI Prize at the Cannes Film Festival and eight Genie Awards, including Best Motion Picture.
Exotica is the first album by Martin Denny, released in 1957. It contained Denny's most famous piece, " Quiet Village", and spawned an entire genre bearing its name. It was recorded in Webley Edwards' studio (not, as often reported, the Aluminum Dome at Henry J. Kaiser's Hawaiian Village Complex) in Waikiki in December 1956. The album topped Billboard's charts in 1959.
The original album was recorded in mono. It was re-recorded in stereo in 1958; by then, however, Denny's popular sideman Arthur Lyman had left the group, and was replaced by Julius Wechter. Denny preferred the original mono version: "It has the original spark, the excitement, the feeling we were breaking new ground."
Exotica is the eighth studio album released by the British female vocal duo Bananarama. This is Bananarama's third album as a duo, and was produced by Pascal Caubet and issued only in France in 2001 on the M6 Interactions label. The work is a combination of new compositions along with re-recordings of past Bananarama hits, including a Latin pop version of the U.S. and UK Top 10 hit, " Cruel Summer".
Two promo-only singles were released from the album: "If" (which was abandoned mostly before release) and a cover version of George Michael's " Careless Whisper". The album was not a commercial or critical success for Bananarama, but the few copies of "If" which made it to the French market have become one of the rarest items ever by the band, heavily sought after by fans and collectors.
Exotica is a musical genre.
Exotica may also refer to:
- Exotica (Martin Denny album), the album that gave the musical genre its name
- Exotica (Bananarama album), an album released by Bananarama
- "Exotica", a song by George Benson from the album Songs and Stories
- Exotica (film), the 1994 Atom Egoyan film
- Exotica (book), a book by David Toop on the musical genre Exotica
Exotica: Fabricated Soundscapes in a Real World is a 1999 non-fiction book by English musician and author David Toop. The work was first published on 15 June 1999 through Serpent's Tail and focuses on the musical genre exotica.
Usage examples of "exotica".
Within the last six months, Exotica has been raided more than the Barbary Coast.
Luc strode away to read Abbie the riot act for showing up at Exotica, for showing up with another man, and for being the cause of his unbalanced emotions.
The way you two argued the other night at Exotica reminded me of that time.
In fact, Abbie was probably at this moment asking the other Exotica dancers about the person.
She stripped at Exotica, then went to that GothCity place and that blood-drinking swine, Alek.
They had been wearing similar expressions since Desdemona had agreed to cosign the loan papers for Exotica Erotica two weeks earlier.
That had been the night Tony had greeted them at the door of her apartment dressed in the Exotica Erotica regalia.
Desdemona whisked into Exotica Erotica with two tall lattes that she had purchased at Emote Espresso.
She had been struggling to control the tremors ever since she had taken Starks call at Exotica Erotica.
She reached for the receiver and dialed the number of Exotica Erotica.
The East held a powerful allure - there was all the glamour and spice and exotica of the Orient, and of course glamour and spice and exotica meant Money.
Beneath the surface gloss of its Slav exotica, this aristocratism constituted the essential spirit of the World of Art.
Such was the demand for his Vitebsk theme, and the ruthlessness with which Chagall exploited it, that critics accused him of merchandizing his own exotica as art.
So now she used all the exercises she had been taught, that first day and night, and then the various restimulating exotica prescribed for waning powers, and it was more than seven days in all before she awoke and found her husband gone from the marital couch.
He spoke of exotica they had never seen, tomes which were nothing but names in the Dictionary: Encyclopedias, Thesauruses, Atlases, Alamancs.