Word: carnal
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...legs, yet each person remains very distinct. The rhythm of the music intensifies, then plummets down to slow-motion tunes. Pushing and pulling against each other, the dancers seem to create curves like molded clay while posing in angular, geometric forms. Although Carmina Burana is definitely a lusty, almost carnal piece about the bodies and desires of human beings, many of the steps and movements imitate non-living forms, from a flower to an octopus flinging its tentacles out in many directions...
...oldest fresh force in rock, this new Bowie seems to share few qualities with old Ziggy, the polymorphous camp extravaganza, the most gilded lily of rock's gaudiest age. What binds these identities together is a gift that is cerebral and carnal, frequently danceable and always entertaining. His former crony Lou Reed has sung about it. Deep down inside, Bowie has a rock-'n'-roll heart...
...draftsman, Mr. Neville (Anthony Higgins), has been commissioned by wily Mrs. Herbert (Janet Suzman) and her daughter Mrs. Talmann (Anne Louise Lambert) to execute a dozen architectural drawings of their estate. When not sharing their carnal favors, he is producing sketches that are precise, refined and troubling-for in them are tantalizing visual hints of a murder, perhaps of the master of the house. Will the draftsman's malefic ingenuity prevail over his hostesses' aristocratic arrogance...
...sweet it is to find a movie in which the hero, having lusted after purely carnal pleasures for much of its length, finally falls in love with a woman's mind...
...Susan's ardent temperament and acerbic tongue, Hare has his say on the duplicities of politics, the hypocrisies of business and the corruptive universal worship of Mammon. When Susan enters a loveless match with a middle-level diplomat (Edward Herrmann), Hare seizes his chance to lay down a carnal barrage on a Foreign Office bureaucracy requiring 6,000 men to dismantle an empire that it took 600 men to govern...