Word: sensualism
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...hours I wander up and down the Coop's aisles, my fingers get a good workout. The silkiness of untouched pages, the uncreased bindings smooth like a pond on a summer's day, the rugged smell of newsprint only shortly removed from the presses, all make for an experience sensual in its own perverse way. At times, when I feel certain no one is looking, I lift an open text to my face and inhale deeply, and, like Marcel Proust biting into a tea-soaked madeleine, I receive visions of things past, of old books caressed, old authors befriended...
...ladder of academic success. There are the movies that you've heard so much about but never seen, the trips to New Hampshire and Vermont, the bars and restaurants of Cambridge and Boston, walks along the river and talks with friends. Are these simple experiences, these fleeting moments of sensual and mental satisfaction to fall before the imperative of a rigorous regimen of study? The arrayed books in the Coop have their own particular splendor, but do you really want your time at Harvard to be dominated by plodding through heavy tomes and scribbling over realms of paper...
...frigidity, try caviar and red peppers, both rich in the reputed aphrodisiac vitamin E. Even better are "limited doses of dry wines." Or for a special lift turn on suitably sensual, rhythmically erotic background music such as Ravel's Boléro and Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring. If all else fails, why not shudder a little with an electric vibrator, used sparingly, of course, so that "a woman will not become more attracted to it than to her husband...
...Naive Chemise features more elegant tailoring, arm-length sleeves with tightly buttoned cuffs, high necklines and low, mid-calf hems. "For me, the chemise is an expression of freedom," said Libertarian Yves. "I wanted to make the fabric float over and just caress the body in a sensual way." The pathfinder who helped lead women to long pants some six years ago offered some manly trouser suits for evening wear, but it was clear that in Paris at least, pants were approaching the passe. Reported Women's Wear Daily: "Yves St. Laurent's Naive Chemise is the only...
...exclusive American circle. She is a kind of bridge between high society and the real world. Instead of rejecting Daisy outright, as all of her uppity friends do, she tries to save the young girl's precariously balanced reputation. Bogdanovich turns this worldy-wise matron into a more raw, sensual character with hints of an affair just ending between her and Winterbourne. Admittedly, Eileen Brennan's performance as the feline Mrs. Walker is very convincing. However, to pull it off completely, the film has to enlarge another character from the book into Mrs. Walker's present lover. This fellow that...