Word: sensualism
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...very sensual, and his body showed it--but that, too, was fine, that was good. For as Gabrielle was giving him a massage giving him love, he thought that he, in return, could give her his body, totally, utterly, mindlessly, give her his body. That would be his expression of love--a love, like hers, which not words, only the body itself, could express. And he knew that she knew. This was not a job--although he would pay her for it. It was more than a job, more even than a ceremony--it was a ballet, a ritual...
...myth, a city planner said: "I had no feeling of alienation or strangeness." A real estate broker commented: "It's a new look at life, which we sorely need. Great!" Halprin herself says that for some people myths are "simply fun, for some a bore, for some extraordinarily sensual, for some a happening, for some a kind of atavistic tribal reawakening. For me, it was all these things-and a new exploration...
...good pop art, the content should be so obvious and blatant that accompanying descriptions are unnecessary. There should be no question of thinking, only of feeling, in much the same way that one senses the flickering of television images or campfire flames. In a, what small sensual pleasure might have been offered in allowing the eye and the mind's ear to skid passively over the letters and words is reduced by the book's arbitrarily changing typography. The continuous flow of conversation that can be experienced by listening to a tape is fragmented in print by paragraphs...
When Head cuts in, the young bride has gone into a strange trance as a result of a sedative Poelzig has given her, as well as the sensual psychic vibrations emanating from the house. Werdegast is explaining all this to the bewildered husband, who skeptically asserts, "Sounds like a lot of supernatural baloney to me." Werdegast smiles calmly and explains, "Supernatural perhaps. Baloney? Perhaps not." Definitely one of the great moments of the American screen...
...satisfy both your serious Beatlephile and your precocious child. What is good about Yellow Submarine--from the epic literary tradition in which it can be placed, to the immediate impact of the color and the music--is obviously good: you need only sit back and indulge in the sensual gluttony the film invites. But Yellow Submarine doesn't all work and what's wrong is perhaps more elusive...