Word: sensually
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Amedeo Modigliani was handsome, sensual, tuberculous, and usually drunk. He hit Paris at 22, soon started a spree that death stopped in 1920, 14 years later. Sober hours he devoted to painting and a little sculpture. His artist friends, including Soutine, Brancusi and Utrillo, thought him great. His acquaintances thought him accursed. The police thought him a nuisance, closed his only one-man show because the nudes in it were so frankly sexy. The public never thought...
...find significance in Hoffman's three loves: the automaton Olympia, the courtesan Giulietta, and the singer Antonia. Then, too, Hoffmann's evil genius appears in different guises in each adventure, to thwart Hoffmann's desire. But whatever symbolism there is in the story is secondary to the purely sensual pleasure of the movie...
...England, purports to be a movie about U.S. gangsters. Adapted from a claptrap novel by Britain's James Hadley Chase (real name: Rene Raymond), who once confessed cribbing from U.S. hard-boiled fiction, the picture outraged London (TIME, May 10, 1948). Censors howled that it was brutal, sadistic, sensual; critics slammed it as "a piece of nauseating muck...
...women ("What a curious, inconsistent thing is the mind of man!"), and London prostitutes found him an easy conquest. What seemed at first a discreet affair with an actress brought him down with a venereal disease that kept him under treatment for five weeks. But nothing could discourage his sensual appetite for long, and the Journal is thick with accounts of his cheap and hasty liaisons. Boswell had been .in London less than two weeks when he got news from Scotland that he was the father of a son, the result of a brief affair in Edinburgh. The child died...
Summer in a Tangerine. In the years preceding the first World War he hopscotched furiously about Europe-Rome, Berlin, Venice, Madrid-in pursuit of inspiration. Soon his New Poems and The Notebooks of Malte Laurīds Brigge were making him the talk of European intellectuals. From his large, sensual mouth came a flood of such poetic fancies as his description of a tangerine, "in which a summer is folded up very small like an Italian silk handkerchief in a nutshell...