Word: blush
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...advertising and plain wrappers, when books on sex were mostly designed to disclose the elementary mysteries of human reproduction. Most novels these days have far more explicit sex than this. Today's mating manuals are advertised in top-drawer magazines in full-page advertisements that would bring a blush to a Victorian bartender. New manuals are published constantly, and most of their readers are not nubile neophytes but experienced men and women, interested in the nuances and fine points of the game, apparently anxious to be more like the sexually superior heroes and heroines of the bestsellers (all fictional...
...Pianos, and the fiendishly difficult Bartok Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion. Through ten days of rehearsals at the Moscow Conservatory, neither could do much but marvel at the other's playing. "I would like to play Mozart as well as Malcolm," Ashkenazy said, drawing a blush from Frager...
...usual sort. The artist, Herr Cazotte, has laid siege to Ehrengard (literally "guard of honor"), an innocent blonde Walkyrie serving as maid of honor to a princess in an idyllic summer court. No fleshly triumph teases him. That would be too easy. What he is after instead is a blush. And a special kind of blush at that. No rosiness such as some blunt, simple-minded fellow might force to her cheeks. "No," writes Cazotte to his patroness, "her blood is to rise, in pride and amour-propre ... in full, triumphant consent to her own perdition." A creature of honor...
...gala Crystal Ball, where she greeted 600 elite guests, among them Contralto Marian Anderson. Though honored by the sponsoring Fashion Group of Philadelphia, the Princess bypassed local couturiers for a deep blue organza gown by Balenciaga. Grace's mother, Mrs. John B. Kelly Sr., wore a blush pink satin frock purchased in Atlantic City. Said she unblushingly, "I don't pay any attention to designers...
...mounted a platform, quick and most effective in small groups, Pearson established little rapport with the voters, often projected a sense of thoughtful indecision. "The thing that terrifies me is demagoguery," he said. "The hoopla, the circus part of it, all that sort of thing still makes me blush...