Word: sensuality
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...Venice, but one that looked east in artistic matters to the traditions of the Byzantine. By his 20s he was already a recognized local practitioner of the religious-icon style. His gifts and ambition eventually took him to Venice, where his art was transformed by the twisting energies and sensual palettes of Titian and Tintoretto, all of which he turned to his own purposes. In The Purification of the Temple, a scene that he produced in many versions over the years, the poses are borrowed from Michelangelo and Tintoretto, among other sources. And the temple is the familiar architectural space...
...boat cruise and one night at an Indonesian holiday resort, along with a fertility education program and a sex counselor. "We are relieving the stress," says Dr. Wei. While bosses in high-pressured Singapore might encourage performance anxiety in the office, the Love Boat mellows the mood with "various sensual stimuli," including music, aromatherapy and aphrodisiacal meals. Would-be parents can even time their visit to coincide with the woman's ovulation. It didn't set sail in time for Valentine's Day, but the Love Boat will make its first voyage in early March. Dr. Wei says several couples...
...about love and human nature; in other words, they begin behaving like the college freshmen they would have been were it not for the Cultural Revolution. (Good thing they didn't come across any works by Schopenhauer.) Luo and his seamstress accelerate from a shy, teenage crush to a sensual coupling ripped from the pages of Flaubert. Luo even uses the novels to tutor her, inadvertently opening the innocent girl's eyes to the possibility of a life outside her village?one that doesn't necessarily include the boys...
...theatrical device in the book at the show - intricate sound and lighting plots, rich costumes brought from India, even a cinema screen that can split into four to help depict the different narrative strands. The operating principle, says Rushdie, is excess. "Everything in this stage version should be excessive, sensual, tumultuous, colorful. That was my view of urban India in that period." After a five-week run in London, the show will go to the U.S., first to Ann Arbor, Michigan, then New York, where Columbia University will present it at Harlem's legendary Apollo Theater. Rushdie, who now lives...
...Mather-Dunster-Quincy formal was held last night in a locale selected by a professional party planner—Club Aria, a venue on Tremont Street in Boston that the Boston Citysearch website describes as evoking “the sensual opulence of a bordello...