Word: sensualism
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...about blacks. He disowns the Lincoln Center production of The Duplex as a "coon show," though nothing in the script indicates that the spirit of the play has been violated. As a slice-of-life playwright, Bullins carves out zesty evocations of drunken parties, card-playing cronies, the sudden sensual thrust and parry of the sexes. When he can carve out the palpitating hearts of blacks who epitomize and yet transcend blackness, he will have written the play he is so promisingly aiming...
Typical of Harvard faculty in this group was Dr. Louis Agassiz who in 1863 wrote (obviously without the facts) that Negroes were "indolent, playful, sensual, imitative, subservient, good-natured, versatile, unsteady in their purpose, devoted and affectionate...nowhere do they appear to have been capable of rising by themselves, to the level of the civilized communities of the whites...
...STREETCAR has a larger scope than that of a character study. Blanche's ultimate tumble into psychosis is Williams' way of shedding a tear for the modern world, for her fall is caused by Stanley Kowalski, her brutish, sensual brother-in-law, and it is the Stanleys, Williams believes, who are taking over the world and leading it on a "dark march" toward atavism...
...down house in London, and seem to be having their share of family squabbles. Enter: The long-absent eldest son, Teddy, now a Doctor of Philosophy in America, and his wife Ruth, Soon Ruth and the two sons, Lenny and Joey, engage in some suggestive conversation culminating in a sensual dance between Ruth and Joey. Then Lenny, matter-of-factly, proposes that Ruth remain in England as the sexual companion of the family, and that she also earn a little money on the side as one of his whores (his occupation as a pimp now being revealed). Ruth coolly accepts...
...Pinter's capacity to utilize all the elements of production at his disposal. Lenny suddenly, and inexplicably, becomes insistent upon removing a glass he had given Ruth. "I'll take it," he demands, and she replies: "If you take it...I'll take you." The effect of this first sensual suggestion on Ruth's part is devastating to the audience's expectations...