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Robert Pharr's prose often clumps along awkwardly, and his construction sometimes creaks. His art is at its apparently artless best when he simply shows the reader the teeming, sensual, violent ghetto, letting the vernacular of the streets crackle through his pages...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Taken for Granite | 6/6/1969 | See Source »

...disassembled, says Berrocal, grew out of his conviction that sculpture is primarily an art that appeals to both hand and eye. To feel what the sculptor felt when he made it, the viewer should be able to hold its weight in his hand-an experience that can be satisfyingly sensual...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sculpture: Take Apart and Look Again | 5/23/1969 | See Source »

...talk about the novel," he asks, "when I don't know what a novel is? There are no novels, there are no writers, only individual books." To the suggestion that he is a sensual writer, he asks, "Isn't writing sensual? Isn't it about feeling? The spirit and the body are one. My concern is to capture everything-the pictures, the scene, the detail-exactly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: I Have Never Seen a More Lucid, More Lonely, Better Balanced Mad Mind Than Mine: Nabokov | 5/23/1969 | See Source »

...appearance of umbrellas at these parades is like some ancient ritual. In the beat of the music, a dance will sometimes throw his umbrella on the ground--handle pointing skywards--and writhe around it in a riotous, sensual dance. If you ask him where he learned to do that with his umbrella, he will say, "Man, they always done this at parades!" or "My daddy done that!" It is a remnant of some long-forgotten rite. An astute observer once described that scene as "some vanished ritual grandeur of humanity that has been lost in the stones, the jungle...

Author: By Thomas A. Sancton, | Title: New Orleans Jazz Funeral Pounds Gaily for the Dead | 5/20/1969 | See Source »

...most of the season, when the Crimson field and track team needed moral support, they had congregated at the Lounge to hear McLoone soothe them with "Go Away Little Girl" in the confines of the Lounge's sensual interior. Sunday, McLoone did not let them down...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Thinclads Celebrate Year; Select Colburn as Captain | 5/20/1969 | See Source »

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