Word: sensuality
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What their pictures prove is that in the right hands Kodachrome can go to the heart of an important paradox: that suffering can happen in sensual settings, that a place can be cruel and inviting all at once. This is something different from the plain bass note of tragedy played in black-and- white photography. Just as the world does, these sweet-and-sour pictures leave us to face the contradictory visual facts and to sort them out for ourselves. The chance to sharpen the moral faculties may be this show's most unlooked for benefit. Any exhibit can introduce...
Many of the great chairs of the era were designed for cafes, only natural in an urban subculture of coffeehouse-and-cabaret cosmopolites. Adolf Loos' lithe, sensual sidechair for his Cafe Museum (1899) makes its Thonet bentwood forebears look dowdy by comparison. Loos' nemesis Hoffmann, though, was the absolute master of furniture and domestic objects. No one has designed handsomer seating in the 20th century. His best-known and most widely copied chair was designed for the Kabarett Fledermaus (1907), a club by and for the avant-garde. The regularity of its limbs and parts is strict, but as with...
...Peterson and her sister, Drummer Debbi Peterson, all in their mid-20s, have been compared to the Beatles, flatteringly but predictably. Anytime a band comes along that has an act full of fun, a songbook full of tunes with enough hooks to put in a tackle box and a sensual appeal that is insinuating and disarming at once, the Fab Four get trotted out like some handy musical yardstick for measuring progress and promise. No fair. The Bangles are a long way from Ticket to Ride, never mind In My Life. It is still early in the tour--their first...
...someone to share cultural activities" or even "relationship and coinvestment in sound real estate project." They are seeking a "man of achievement with sensibility as keen as intellect' and a "woman who enjoys Bach and books." Unlike The Village Voice, Harvard Magazine contains no mention of "intimate afternoons" or "sensual encounters...
Victoria G.T. Bassetti hopes that "one day our society will look at Playboy and Playgirl as sensual expressions of sexuality..." ("Don't Rationalize Away Sensitivity"). But these magazines, by their very structure and intent, seem antithetical to full sensual expression...