Word: sensuality
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...blow up paintings of comic-book panels, sandwiches and soda-pop, is as lucid and incisive a reflection of American life as any contemporary art. And portrayal of the culture of its origin remains a justification of art. But Lichtenstein's work stands up on its own in purely sensual terms, and also in formal aesthetic terms...
...begins to stalk bars for one-night stands. Though she makes a few attempts at longer relationships, they are usually dismally unbearable for her, because, fearing rejection, she avoids emotional involvement. Feeling she is inadequate to hold any man worth getting involved with, Theresa allows herself only sensual attachments...
Coco makes a good Jolly, full of poor, crazy hopes, and Raquel Welch appears as Queenie. Welch's presence is usually the occasion for unchivalrous wisecracks of one sort or another, but she is genuinely touching in The Wild Party. Her Queenie is a really sensual woman, not a creature of synthetic sexuality. Unhappily, The Wild Party may be the first of her starring vehicles in which she is actually better than the material...
...Martin Luther King. In it, a women sings the sounds that form King's name over whispered instrumental chords. At the climatic end of the piece, the whole name finally emerges. At first, it is as if we have penetrated beneath the meaning of the name to the purely sensual sounds that underlie it. And at the end, the whole name rises up above the surface like an emerging volcanic island...
Perplexed, dogged, distracted from the main issues in the case by everything from the economy to the mysteries of feminine psychology, he is an enormously appealing Everyman under pressure. Jennifer Warren, playing an updated version of the old Lauren Bacall character, at once smart-mouthed and sensual, is both skillful and beautiful...