Word: sensualism
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...playing the gossipy Mrs. Bassett, has a good deal of trouble with her accent, but this only brings out the humor in her part. Although the supporting males are generally ineffectual, at least they aren't often on stage. Patricia Guest, as the Mexican charmer Rosa Gonzales, is perfectly sensual, but unfortunately a little too sensual. For some reason, when confronted by the elder Dr. Buchanan she does a sort of serpentine sidle, the absurdity of which might have been foreseen by Director Judith Barker...
Rubens' paintings show a grandness of conception that reminds me of Michelangelo. The larger than life figures of the Renaissance master are, however, classical in their dignity and spirituality. In contrast, Rubens' figures are treated romantically. They are overly real and sensual. Passions are magnified rather than reason or the inner restraint which tighten the faces and figures of Michelangelo. Certain fine oil sketches like *uos Ego reveal the characteristics of the Baroque style which Rubens created almost singlehandedly. Classical clarity is replaced by endless movement, and color is handled in a broad, and, at times, impressionistic, manner. In other...
...itself on its celebrity parties, but the presence of its noted guests (Ann Sheridan, Elizabeth Taylor, Gertrude Stein, and the Ballet Russe) has not prevented many of them from becoming quite wild. At parties for T.S. Eliot, of course, decorum has always prevailed, the atmosphere being more sentimental than sensual. But there was an entirely different air about the Elizabeth Taylor party. And the Dylan Thomas party was notable for the number of people who were thrown downstairs...
...acting fashion in Italy from that day to this. She called it realismo and overnight the narrow highways and byways of Italy were crowded with "Ma-gnamni," who frumped their hair down over their eyes, ripped a few strategic seams m their cheap cotton prints and generally made a sensual virtue of postwar economic necessity...
...taped sounds interrupted the orchestra, each time became more drastic, until the effect was of actual terror, as machine-gun bursts alternated with animal wails, with monstrously loud cricket chirps, with the sounds of huge crowds of faceless people roaring. Eventually, a passage of simple dissonance sounded as sensual as Ravel...