Word: sensuality
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Canning's story is brisk, but one cherishes his characters. Blanche Tyler, a blowsily sensual gypsy medium, is commissioned, innocently enough, to locate Shoebridge as the heir to a fortune. Amiable George Lumley, a garrulous middle-aged failure, does Blanche's detective work for a fee-and a night in bed. Then there is Miss Rainbird, a conventional spinster and country heiress out of Jane Austen...
...with that of the other. Duff's is a vulgar one, talking mostly of events of the past few days, but often reminiscing about the past, and occasionally addressing Beth: "Do you like me to talk to you? Mmmm, I think you do." Beth's soliloquy is lyrically sensual, consisting totally of her memories (fantasies?) of a sandy beach where she lay with her lover in the distant past...
...Italy's most gifted director in the generation after Fellini and Antonioni, and one of the most gifted younger directors on the world scene (see box, page 54). It will also introduce, in the role of the young girl, a striking new performer: France's sensual, baby-faced Maria Schneider, 20, whose blithely amoral charm perfectly expresses the contem porary...
...Paul's instinctiveness, his sensual aura, his physical grace and forcefulness, one recognizes the Brando who galvanized Broadway as a young actor in A Streetcar Named Desire in 1947, then went on to Hollywood to make a series of six stunning pictures in five years, including The Wild One, On the Waterfront and Julius Caesar. This was the Brando who in the 1950s struck one of the keynotes of a generation with his romantic outlaw swagger, who influenced a whole school of cooler, more introspective actors like James Dean, Paul Newman and Montgomery Clift, and whose blue-jeaned, motorcycle...
...which is not about vampires, and a 20-page summary of Bram Stoker's 1897 novel Dracula, which is. It is here that the single idea of Wolfs book is developed. This is the notion that the force of Stoker's novel derives from the sensual repressions of the Victorian Age. Of course he is correct. The fantasy of a tall intruder in evening clothes bending over the naked bosom of a sleeping maiden must have been delicious. He might have gone further. The Middle Ages believed matter-of-factly in vampires, and the 19th century was thrilled...