Word: plaisir
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...Since the chill goddesses of the Fontainebleau school in the 16th century, the nude in French art had retained some measure of Gothic proportion- elongated torso, small high breasts - and a distinct aura of remoteness. Boucher's nude was small, full and rounded: a compact little machine à plaisir, borne up like a plump rose on tumultuous puffs of cloud or sprawled, replete with the matter-of-fact enjoyment of her own narcissism, on a tangled day bed. Indeed Louis XV's true escutcheon was the round, dimpled bottom of Boucher's favorite model, an inhabitant...
...walks to the Swan tavern to meet Sarah Udall, recording his aims, in bastard French, to "kiss and see mamelles...comgram plaisir." He reports to the royal council on the victualing of the fleet, and is complimented by "the King afterward, who doth now know me so well, that he never sees me but he speaks to me about our Navy business...
...think the Brattle managers handled their publicity correctly," Benjamin Sack, owner of the Beacon Hill Theatre, explained. "I think Miss Julie deserved a longer showing." He himself proceeded to sign a contract with Times Films to exhibit The Game of Love, One Summer of Happiness, Manon, Le Plaisir, and Gigi--all of which are noted for their censorable subject matter...
...Carnival in Flanders has a picture tried so many things at once and brought them all off so well. To begin with, the wonderfully overdone upper-class interiors (designed by Jean d'Eaubonne) are photographed with a languid infatuation that moviegoers who saw La Ronde and Le Plaisir will recognize as characteristically Ophulent. And yet, at the same time, it is clear that Ophuls is unmistakably smiling at his own bad taste...
...Plaisir (Max Ophuls; Mayer-Kingsley) is a Gallic study of pleasure seen through the magnifying lens of three short stories by Guy de Maupassant...