Word: joy
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Baryshnikov is a fine actor as well. He takes open, youthful joy in being onstage, while respecting what he calls "the sensitive weave" of the work's overall design. His Albrecht in Giselle, for example, is a coltish kid in love with the idea of love, touchingly unable to comprehend that, as a nobleman, he just cannot have this terrific peasant girl. He excels at shrewd, straightforward comedy. In Frederick Ashton's Les Patineurs, the dancers appear to be on ice skates. Misha seems about to fall over backward at times-a mime performance that Marcel Marceau might...
...Much more important to Baryshnikov is the insistence that "the essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure." In that sentence, one feels, he comes closer to the heart of his appeal than any observer can. Audiences love a man taking not just enormous joy in his work, but still greater satisfaction in the knowledge that he may very well be the best of the best...
...education projects to make him rich for life. Oddly, something very like this improbable conclusion has happened to Goggins' creator-Alex Comfort, 55, a writer-biologist-philosopher of some note, whose useful work on the aging process was carried out in modest obscurity until he unleashed The Joy of Sex and More Joy (TIME, Oct. 7) upon the do-it-by-the-book decade. Odder still, Comfort published Come Out to Play in England in 1961, long before he emerged as the Baedeker of bodily contact...
Fruit Flies. "The book," says Comfort, sounding more and more like a sociologist, "started to be simply a comic novel. I think now it was the manifesto of which The Joy of Sex commences the implementation." To have read Come Out to Play is like having witnessed an apple fall on Sir Isaac Newton's head: a ho-hum incident at the time but noteworthy in hindsight. As a sex book without a single sex scene, it is a tame reminder of how things have changed since 1961. And as the story of a sex clinic conceived before...
...most primitive joy of the film is its vindictive morality. Rarely has a purer, more rigid and satisfying morality been preached to me since elementary school: If you follow all the directions of the firemen, you will get out alive. Just what I was told in third grade. A few innocent people get killed, for the sake of pathos, but basically, if you obey orders you'll be saved. Unless, of course, you're a Sinner. In this movie sin means, say, staying after work to have sex with your secretary. The connection between adultery and hellfire has never been...