Word: caressed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Kydes and I talk about the great soccer games that teams have played," Mena said, "and about the great individual moves. But mostly we talk about Rivelino, because that guy knows how to mother the ball, how to fondle and caress it and just do anything with...
...direction?never the command ?of their therapists, the patients are encouraged to begin exploring the latent capabilities and mysteries of their bodies. As a first step, they are asked to disrobe in the privacy of their apartment bedroom and caress each other in ways only indirectly sexual?a gentle stroking of the back, a hand lightly tracing the contours of a thigh. Taking turns is an important part of the therapy. One spouse is the giver, the other the getter of pleasure. The roles are then reversed. In succeeding sessions, the caressing becomes more intimate, until at last...
...Around 1200," Moving points out, "for practically the first time since ancient Greek and Roman times, draperies curl and caress the bodies underneath, and limbs are proudly and successfully shown as organic entities. Faces become truly alive, eyes shine with an inner light, gestures seem to develop an entirely new expressive poetry of their own." That humanizing influence can be traced in a masterly bronze Moses from the Mosan area of northern France and Belgium, in numerous conceptions of the Virgin Mary as a regal but very real woman, and in a series of strikingly carved stone heads recalling Hellenistic...
Grusha's disasters are set against two compellingly tender love scenes with the soldier Simon Chachava (Allan Present). They electrify each other with a touch or a glance so that they seem to merge as an organic unit. They tease and caress each other to soften their anxious probing of one another's desires. When they feel sure of each other, the action is amplified into a frenzied embrace or a rowdy wrestling match. The improvisational use of exaggerated physical interaction between characters is stunningly appropriate throughout the play (in contrast to the uneven use of the same technique...