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...swirling softness of French musical impressionism. There are no mists in Solti's Debussy. The sky is clear blue over his La Mer, but how shimmering those eddies of string tone, how thundering the waves of brass. Afternoon of a Faun may just be the most sensual on records...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Classic and Choice | 5/23/1977 | See Source »

...consists of players whose passion is the theater and who possess talents of the highest distinction. Rosemary Harris could mesmerize an audience by reciting the multiplication table. Tovah Feldshuh is a steel butterfly, a young actress of electrifying presence and promise. As Masha, Ellen Burstyn lacks some consuming sensual hunger, but her parting embrace with Vershinin is a silent, agonized howl of lost love...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Singing the Moscow Blues | 5/16/1977 | See Source »

...love all her characters equally, but she admits that Ernestine is first among them. Why? The answer is surprising. "Doing Ernestine is really a very sexual experience. I just squeeze myself very tight from the face down. The bottom line with Ernestine is that she's a very sensual person," says Lily, who herself moves with the free, confident grace of a dancer. "She's a woman who knows she has a very appealing body and likes to show...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lily... Ernestine...Tess...Lupe...Edith Ann.. | 3/28/1977 | See Source »

...revising it (cutting out five shorts and adding three new ones), the managers vowed they would not take the possibility of renewed censorship into account. And they seem to have remained true to their promise. A number of these shorts are still perverse and pornographic, if not as "sensual" as the show's publicity promises...

Author: By Mark T. Whitaker, | Title: Puerile Palpitations | 3/28/1977 | See Source »

...from the first tentative attempts to circumscribe a subject to the buildup of a multicellular organism in which each part functions to the betterment of the whole. Keeley first discusses the interplay between the literal city of Alexandria and Cavafy's mythical counterpart. He then treats each plane--the sensual (contemporary) and historical--separately, and finally unifies the two in a brief discussion of the poet's latest work, and the beginnings of a "universal mode," which led George Seferis, a Cavafy scholar, to state...

Author: By Marilyn L. Booth, | Title: Discovering A Myth-Maker | 2/8/1977 | See Source »

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