Word: sensualness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...couple of canes. "How do you do?" says Gielgud to her. "How do I do what?" she says. That bit of dialogue was exchanged between Snow White and Grumpy in Walt Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Ah, so, heigh-ho. Gielgud is Snow White, and sensual Alice is Grumpy. But isn't she really the Virgin Mary? Doesn't she wear the Madonna's blue and hold him in the precise attitude of the Pieta as he dies? So he must be Grumpy then, and Grumpy must be Christ. Which Walt Disney never...
Testifying for the book, Bullitt said that Cleland was "presenting here a moral situation in which he is affirming certain moral values, certain attitudes. The structure of this affirmation is to set somewhat in opposition the idea of sensual delight on the one hand to . . . prudence, or rationality, on the other. . . . The sense of the novel can be construed as the education of a young woman in moral life; she learns . . . the value of love." Bullitt suggested further that "this clearly is a piece of rather remarkable social history of interest to anyone who is interested in fiction...
...history, where the High Renaissance collapsed and reshaped itself into the Baroque, stands that accomplished but today little-valued style called "Mannerism." Painters like Mabuse, Cranach, Caravaggio, da Pontormo, and a hundred others across Europe were luxuriating in the mastery of technique. Their work was energetic, inventive, sensual, and edged with a fascination for the grotesque...
...most surprising self-portrait in the show is Beckmann's depiction of himself at twenty-three as the young aesthete. Standing before a window overlooking Florence, his pose is archly self-critical. The effeminate position of the hand, the soft, glistening, sensual mouth and the almost humorous defiance and cynicism of the worldly young man, set the stage of his subsequent quest for what he perceptively refers to as "male mysticism...
...Saigon last week wore the strained smile of a city denying reality. In the sensual half-light of the busy Tu Do nightclub, a chanteuse belted out "Non, je ne regrette rien," while in the harsh countryside the casualties totaled over 1 ,000 Vietnamese and a score of Americans in one of the worst weeks of the long war against the Viet Cong. Tall bottles of Krug champagne stood at attention next to Long John Scotch in the windows of shops filled with luxury goods, and the cafés and milk bars were jammed with clothes-conscious students oblivious...