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Ever since French Novelist Prosper Mérimée locked a lustful Navarrese soldier and a lubricious Spanish gypsy in fatal embrace, Don José and his Carmen have danced their deadly Habanera through ligh art and mass culture. Although burdened with a sanitized libretto, Composer Georges Bizet transformed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COUNTRY: From Heartland to Heartthrobs | 10/8/1984 | See Source »

A central dilemma for mother and son is when to ease the tie. "Traditionally," says Klein, "we encourage an emotional and physical distancing from mothers earlier in boys than in girls." Part of the reason is fear of the erotic potential of the bond, but in addition there is the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: The Most Powerful Bond of All | 10/1/1984 | See Source »

These erotic scenes, replayed in countless variations by such academic painters as France's Jean-Léon Gérôme and England's John Frederick Lewis, kept the crowds coming to the shows organized by the Academic des Beaux-Arts in Paris and the Royal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Lured by the Exotic East | 9/3/1984 | See Source »

Watteau managed to skim off Rubens' lustrous surface and endow it with a still greater sense of nuance, while leaving his master's tyrannous physicality behind. To look at his fētes champětres -those felicitously idealized gatherings of young lovers, planted on the unchanging lawn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Sounding the Unplucked String | 8/20/1984 | See Source »

A lot of Visual and Environmental Studies professors probably got a big shock when they got to the last four minutes of Eames Demetrios's 70-minute thesis film. After 66 minutes of what viewers called outstanding technical work, the movie shifts to a four-minute scene of two people...

Author: By Victoria G.T. Bassetti, | Title: Exploring Peru, Bluegrass and Vogue | 6/7/1984 | See Source »

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