Word: blushful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Furthermore, the author's attempts to comment on the sexes would make Hemingway blush. "A man's beauty represents inner, functional truths: his face shows what he can do," Mersault muses. "What is that compared to the magnificent uselessness of a woman's face...
much treasure: I do not wish to blush...
...wonder. The work is an unabashed sex comedy, a Myra Breckenridgian imbroglio of ungodly carryings-on among ancient deities. Cavalli's music floats along, endless melodious recitative, rich with strings, harps and harpsichord. The music makes even a blush-laden plot acceptable: Jove desires nubile Calisto, a virgin in the temple of Diana. Figuring correctly that Calisto will do anything Diana tells her, old Jove transforms himself into a replica of that bosomy goddess. Meanwhile the real Goddess Diana is cavorting with a local shepherd. After her gay, if confusing, romance, poor Calisto is turned first into a bear...
...Andre Cayatte (Tomorrow Is My Turn) has derived a lumpish film from it. Love Story would appear to be another inspiration. The lovers in To Die of Love smooch, swoon and suffer with a fervor that would bring a blush of recognition to Jenny Cavilleri's wan cheek...
...liners were killed, of course, by the jet plane, a device that condensed the leisured misery of a five-day crossing into seven hours of concentrated nullity or wretchedness. Oddly, however-the same is true of the process that makes frozen orange juice-something was lost in the squeezing. Blush and call it romance...