Word: sensuality
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...means of expression. But the groups, which have doubled in the past five years, are also attracting executives, health professionals and schoolchildren. The most popular drums are the Afro-Cuban conga and the West African djembe--a loud, responsive instrument with the brightest high tones and the deepest, most sensual lows. "Drumming is primal," says Kulu Spiegel, who conducts circles for at-risk youth and corporate honchos out of his World Beat Rhythm Circles in Durango, Colo. "It brings people together in a trusting way they often have never known before...
That removal, however, is stunning-absolutely stunning-in its execution. With soaring, fluid cinematography, Trueba takes the studio, normally a confining space cluttered with microphones and bulky sonic equipment, and opens it up, creating a free arena for artistic expression. Trueba's camera is sensual in its gaze as it caresses Elias' form on the piano. He lovingly traces down her slender figure, caressing her bare feet as they touch the pedals, thus turning her playing into a corporeally total experience, rather than a nexus between limbs and the mind. Alternately, when not gliding around the performers, Trueba breaks...
...like Mickey Mantle or Orson Welles, a man both loved and respected. And punk mattered, it changed lives like jazz did or the '60s did. It was only stupid when it wanted to be; if you couldn't hear that, you would never break on through to the sheer sensual pleasure it offered. I'm grateful I was there, that I saw the Ramones, that I heard their music...
...entry on the subject of sleep, the Encyclopedia of Religion and Ethics declares: "Animals regularly fall asleep if deprived of their usual sensual stimuli, and so do men of low mental capacity...
...stature and, lately, getting a little paunchy around the waist, Luchini is nobody's idea of a classic matinee idol. But he has something almost no other actor possesses these days: a flawless elocution, a way of incarnating the spoken word that turns a text into a lyrical, almost sensual form of expression. In a country like France, proud and respectful of its rich literary tradition, Luchini has had phenomenal success with his one-man recitations of works by authors ranging from Lafontaine and Victor Hugo to Baudelaire and Louis-Ferdinand Céline...