Word: eroticizing
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Dancing made stars in the '30s: Temple, Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, Eleanor Powell. As for the toe-tapping extras, the foot soldiers of Hollywood musicals, Busby Berkeley put them to work by the hundreds, using them to create giant geometric shapes that were both military and erotic. From a...
“While we consume movies, movies consume us,” states Rob Moss, the Rudolf Arnheim Lecturer on Filmmaking in the department of Visual and Environmental Studies. “Yet films are difficult to make. It’s difficult to makes sense of the world...
Then, she moves on to how Whitman is able to fantasize a radically democratic future in which new forms of social and erotic relations, including male-male, will be possible, and to Ashbery’s discovery of a kindred aesthetic sensibility in a long-dead Renaissance painter.
The writing is not so much erotic as unnervingly bawdy. When I came across one particular passage, I nearly burst into laughter in Lamont: “Mary wrapped her legs around his hips, trying to have him so far inside that he could stay with her forever.â?...
Rumors—and a scathing 2001 Rolling Stone article entitled “The Highly Charged Erotic Life of a Wellesley Girl”—paint Wellesley as a school populated by hyper-sexualized, lonely nymphets. Or maybe it’s a school filled with aspiring...