Word: sensuality
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Polemics aside, hers aims to be a profound account of a woman's journey toward a sensual awakening, but Alvarez's small repertoire of narrative gestures is inadequate to create an interesting, surface, let alone psychological depth. Julie is a "waiflike" creature whose husband, despite his stuffiness, manages to have a sensuality "as massive and crushing as a Centurion tank." As the story begins, she is tolerating a routine of more-or-less intermittent rape; soon she is submitting a bit more cheerfully to one of her husband's students, Sam; by the end of the book she has left...
...favored mod-squad version that will probably be consigned to the choreographic trash can. George Balanchine flatly called the Ravel score, with its wildly eccentric rhythms, impossible. Nonetheless, because he was "madly in love with the music," Tetley plunged ahead. Said he: "It is simply one of the most sensual scores ever written. Ravel invoked a Greece of the imagination...
...Burgess Meredith), a busted-down vaudevillian whose daughter Faye (Karen Black) is the sort of teasing, intemperate beauty who slaughters men with a smile. Karen Black is a bothersome actress at best, strident and sloppy; she does not even have what acting schools call "the physical apparatus" to be sensual. Faye represents another hopeless dream whose vulgar impossibility is supposed to make her, like Hollywood itself, all the more seductive. She must be ruinously alluring; Black merely looks wrecked...
Married for 20 years to Dancer Carmen de Lavallade, Holder relaxes by stirring up elaborate feasts for family friends. He finds cooking "so sexy, so sensual," in fact, that in addition to other upcoming projects, such as a film with Jeanne Moreau, Holder is planning to open a restaurant. On Sundays he will offer a special menu of Scotch and ice cream-"a fantasy for divorced fathers...
...talk, someone asked Evans what it was like to grow old. "Wonderful said Evans. He described it as a "relief" at "immensely happy period" in which one is "able to reflect, consider," and "see things with greater sensitivity." Feelings and impressions are heightened not blunted and everything is "more sensual even...