Word: sensualism
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...antibiotics, the illness has lost its peculiar quality. TBs used to be a kind of international society. It was that world of their own that I wanted to write about." The result is no Magic Mountain, but it is brilliant in its way. There has seldom been so sensual a novel written with so little eroticism or with so much effect. Lalla emerges as that strange girl who lies buried somewhere in most men's lives, the girl who was never attainable although all circumstances seemed just right for attainment. The supple dialogue is loaded with surprise and revelation...
Married. Ljuba ("I am a ripe wooman") Welitch, 42, redhaired, dumpling-shaped Bulgarian soprano whose sensual Salome at the Metropolitan Opera (1949) had audiences hanging on till the seventh veil; and handsome Vienna Traffic Cop Karl Schmalvogl, 29; both for the second time; in Vienna...
...case, Marilyn Monroe's hip-flipping, lip-twitching, frolicsomely sensual figure is the latest curve on the path of erotic progress that has led Hollywood from the slithering vamp to the good-natured tramp. Her physical proportions (37-23-37) have become a vital statistic, and the poor little waif has become a big business; her last five pictures have grossed more than $50 million. Moreover, there is solid evidence that she knows how to run her business...
Best of the newcomers is Britain's Chris topher Logue, who brings to the naked charms of his ladylove the sensual splendors of The Song of Solomon. For other issues, Tambi hopes to secure poems from Dame Edith Sitwell and T. S. Eliot...
...major virtue of this issue is that the editors have resisted the temptation to pad a thin issue with bad material. All of the stories are competently written, but none of the authors seem to have any more pressing concern than telling a sensual tale, which means that the reader can put down the issue on any particular sentence without feeling the slightest regret, but that, on the other hand, he may pick it up again without severe foreboding...