Word: sensuality
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...looking forward to that iconic Thai dessert, sticky rice with mango, but it was nowhere to be found. For those of you in the dark, this is a positively inspired pairing: gooey glutinous rice suffused with circulation-clogging salty (no, seriously) coconut milk, rounded off by that most sensual of tropical fruits, the musky mango. All they had were some dubiously Thai ice creams (green tea?) and Thai fruit (lychee, rambutan, longan). The ice creams were priced...
...Toronto abounded with tales of innocence protected, propriety defiled. In the precise, grisly A Snake of June by Shinya Tsukamoto (renowned for his heavy-metal Tetsuo thrillers), a sensible career woman receives a package containing photos of her masturbating. The unknown photographer exploits her sensual sin by forcing her into ever-more provocative situations in Tokyo malls and subways. The moral: in a society where everything is recorded, only a saint could elude blackmail...
...does more than just fire the imagination and stimulate the senses. After one or two hours in complete darkness, patrons come to appreciate the skills of the blind waiters, who move around the room with perfect ease. A trip to Unsicht-Bar thus sheds light on a strange sensual world in which the sighted people are the ones who are blind...
...Austrian artist Gustav Klimt were around for his 140th birthday on July 14, he'd probably be a happy man. A controversial artist whose erotic and sensual works were once scorned for their "unclear ideas through unclear forms," Klimt is now enjoying a splash of dead-artist celebrity, with his influence popping up in ads, restaurants and even shoes. O.K., maybe he wouldn't be that happy. --By Heather Won Tesoriero
Having garnered a fanatical following in her native Britain, Lawson, 42, a sensual anti-Martha Stewart, is sauteing and simmering her amateur way into the hearts of armchair cooking enthusiasts in the U.S. Hers are among the best-selling cookbooks in the nation, and her TV series, Nigella Bites--which airs on the Style network and E!--seems as popular with Yanks as it was with the Brits. Now this single mom is working on another cooking series, Forever Summer, slated for the Style network this fall...