Word: eroticized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Hart's stilted prose style, in its attempt to create a sensual yet literary story, kills all the emotion that this potentially erotic plot could have elicited. Hart tries frantically to use as many adjectives as possible and ends up with amateurish Dickensian overkill--the story and characters are utterly...
DAMAGE by Josephine Hart (Knopf; 198 pages; $18). Erotic obsession is a risky subject for fiction. No matter how besotted the victims of this malady may be, their behavior is likely to strike mere witnesses, i.e., readers, as distasteful, hilarious or both. This first novel, whose author is a London...
Throughout the play, Tan resists placing his characters in simple, archetypical roles, cultivating instead the psychological complexities and hidden motivations that inform the resolution of Aeschylus' own version. Who would have suspected that Apollo would have to use an erotic tango dance to persuade Athena to side with him on...
In Washington one gets a full sense of his range, which was very large, from formal to intimate portraiture, from state commemoration to religious allegory. His big religious paintings, mostly for Flemish churches, are bravura performances, but none of them have the trumpeting conviction or the sheer inventiveness of Rubens...
In the bad old days, some 20 years ago, no one had the heart even to talk about it. Breast cancer struck the most evident of a woman's assets, where the motherly and the erotic are joined. And treatment of the disease was a nightmare of pain, disfigurement and...