Word: sensualness
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...terrorists of the left. Primo Spaggiari's industry and instinct have made him a millionaire. But as time drags on, and Primo realizes that meeting the ransom demand will mean closing his factory, he begins to believe that everyone around him - his son's girlfriend (the darkly sensual Laura Morante), a radical worker-priest (Victor Cavallo), maybe even Primo's patrician wife (Anouk Aimee) - is involved in the abduction. Conspiracy or paranoia? Primo says: "I prefer not to know." And the film takes no sides, instead allowing both protagonist and moviegoer to entertain each terrible possibility...
...reader concerned only with plot, the yield is relatively low. The pastoral is an ancient tradition. Small schools for the young daughters of the leisure classes have had more literary attention, certainly, than their numbers have called for. Freeman has missed no gothic twists here--ghost sightings, illicit trysts, sensual foreigners, even secret abortions...
...they sound like, and how they can be arranged. With words, the artist creates his own imaginary world, a world without values, ideas, or social relevance. For Nabokov, literature is a detective game: The reader tries of solve the word code and enter the imaginary world. Nabokov describes the sensual pleasure he finds in art: a certain tingling feeling in the spinal cord, he says. His cowering pupils are told over and over again that the social, cultural, or intellectual context of a work of art is simply irrelevant...
...feminine fashion are witty and compact. On designer accessories: "Very ugly brown plastic handbags, which, because they were boldly stamped with the letters 'LV,' . . . cost far more than similar but less ugly brown leather handbags." On excess jewelry: a "lower-middle-class or nouveau riche indicator of sensual laxity." The "Annie Hall" look: "I'm only playing; I'm not really big enough to wear a man's pants." On executive skirts: "Ordinary gestures like sitting on a low sofa or stepping over a puddle become difficult." On high heels: "The halting tiptoe gait they...
...Fred took Ginger by the hand, and she leaned into his body, and the dance began, a more beautiful story was told: of the emotions only motion can convey, of two people's need for transcendence, of the perfect fusion of passion and technique into a delicate, sensual mating dance...