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...more than 50 books), he has always had a sympathetic ear for the exotic, and even erotic, spiritual quests of the young. In this candid autobiography, covering his first 30 years, the historian portrays himself as a scapegrace whose enormous appetite for life embraced both the intellectual and the sensual...
...Diana's youthful radiance stole the show last week at the Queen's garden party. Allowing an elderly blind guest to feel her engagement ring, she joked: "I'd better not lose this before Wednesday or they won't know who I am." Her outright sensual allure has smartened up her fiance considerably...
...easily have been converted to revolutionary purposes. Such celebrations, particularly the annual Saturnalia, featuring mock overthrows of legitimate and illegitimate rulers, expressed, says Shaw, a profound ambivalence toward authority. While stating that the highly moral and serious-minded leaders of the revolution were not caught up in this almost sensual form of protest, Shaw does suggest that "their strength derived from the popular rehearsal of revolution going on around them in Massachusetts...
...life. I didn't work for two years." So when Bob Rafelson walked into a motel room in North Carolina, where Lange was appearing in a threadbare sex comedy, she was ready to show him what moviegoers had missed. Rafelson recalls that he found "an incredibly sensual woman who made no effort to be sensual. I thought that if I could get this woman to be on-screen the way she was in repose, she would be utterly striking." He took her to Hollywood for screen tests with Jack Nicholson. Two years before, she had tested for Nicholson...
...cast's inexperience makes it even more natural and simple to be inarticulate about things for which there are no words and which glamorous, eloquent action would romanticize. Laura Harrington, as Donna, is a beautiful, unpolished young woman who makes the complex emotions she must portray believable. The sensual awkwardness of her and Michelle Green as Marlene render their strange position more poignant...