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...dedicated satyr. The dancer Isadora Duncan, whom he would meet some years later, once said that whenever they were together she felt like "a nymph in front of a centaur." Though Rodin had a longtime mistress, Rose Beuret, and a whole string of others on the side, his affair with Claudel would have an intensity unlike any others. After the sex they could talk about Bernini and Donatello...
...same held true on Saturday when the Crimson (4-2-1, 0-1 Ivy) dropped a 3-1 contest in the Ivy League opener to the rival Bulldogs (4-1-3, 1-0) during a night affair in New Haven. The first conference loss of the season also snapped a three-game winning streak and an unbeaten streak stretching back to the first game of the season. Still, for some, the excitement that comes with any athlete’s first Harvard-Yale game was a small bit of consolation for dropping to 0-1 in league play...
...pathos and the writing. In 1931, Nin meets exuberant masculinist writer Henry Miller (“Tropic of Cancer”) and his bisexual spitfire of a wife June, and Nin immediately falls for her beauty and his writing. June soon leaves, allowing the married Nin to begin an affair with Henry, which leads to her complete sexual awakening. It is an emotional and captivating true narrative matched perfectly by Nin’s prose, which has a Hemmingwayian sparseness and raw force, but is directed within to her own emotional life. A must read for boys and girls...
Cronenberg was turned onto Mortensen by his performance in “A Walk on the Moon,” in which he plays a traveling salesman having an affair with a lonely housewife. The director feels that “in that [film], he did something that you don’t see in most of his other movies: he was very sweet, gentle, tender, compassionate, and of course, sexy, which I knew I needed Tom Stall to have...
...back as the Roman gourmand Apicius' legendary banquet in 20 A.D., and in certain villages life has long revolved around the aromatic fungus. In San Giovanni d'Asso, located on a Tuscan hilltop and surrounded by the rolling clay slopes of the Crete Senesi, truffles are truly a village affair: there are 50 truffle hunters out of a population of 350, according to Mayor Michele Boscagli. From September to December they hunt for the delicacy, feast on a portion of their bag, and sell the rest to local merchants and restaurants. San Giovanni d'Asso holds an annual Truffle Festival...