Word: sensualism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...amoral, emotionally unstable, outcast, maladjusted, nymphomaniacal, condescending [white] women in desperate and untiring search" for black men. In the first issue of the new black women's magazine Essence, due out April 28, Writer Louise Meriwether describes a typical dashiki-clad black man and his white date: " 'Sensual, sexy Black man.' That's what her look conveys." But an approaching black girl conveys another look. " Traitor. Talking Black and sleeping white.' " The black women's liberation movement has its male adherents, like Eldridge Cleaver, who apostrophized: "Flower of Africa, it is only through...
Electrodes. "O.K., let's go," says Mrs. Shriver, 44. The first film of the day is a Japanese import, The Daydream, a collage of sensual sounds and sadomasochistic fury. On the screen, a man hangs a girl from the ceiling by ropes, then cuts off her clothing with a knife. "I'm either out of touch with Oriental culture," says Mrs. Shriver, wife of an oil-company executive, "or there's something here that escapes me." In another scene, the man strokes the girl's private parts. Both are naked except for masks...
...mortarboards. A taller field of wires stands behind, with tinted silver disks on their tops. The effect is mesmerizing: two fields of waving silver, apparently changing their undulations according to the noise you make. The wires are anthropomorphic, seeming to have heads and hips, ever-waving, never-jerking hips. Sensual fantastical steel to play with. Imagine a bigger field of that in the Rockefellr Center mall, or as a street divider in Harvard Square...
...that. In structure, the solos, pas de deux and dances for the corps are almost chastely classical; yet Broadway keeps breaking in. After a serene, supple lift, two dancers will suddenly embrace in a highly stylized foxtrot. A sequence of pirouettes will lead into a flashy split or a sensual side step. The incongruities somehow blend into a consistent display of Balanchine's mastery of forms. Who Cares?, in fact, is practically an anthology in action of his knowledge of dance. Male Lead Jacques D'Amboise has separate pas de deux with three different ballerinas (Marnee Morris, Patricia...
Actually they are attempting much more: creating a total sensual environment that includes a light show, rock music, films shown on a screen, and videotapes on television screens. Borrowing from McLuhan, the theater is called Global Village...