Word: sensualness
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Raquel Welch's surprisingly pleasant performance is a good example. As a sex symbol Welch was never very sensual because there was something awkward and cold-blooded about her. But the movies she played in never acknowledged this, and she didn't either. She didn't transmit the intelligence of a Jane Fonda, who showed in her eyes that she half-knew she was exploiting and being exploited, and kept flashing a curious dignity above the demeaning roles. But Welch was in on the cheat. Predatory, she'd wriggle up out of the water, reptilian and sleek, looking like...
...wall while looking up the dress of an obliging young woman. Fireworks are going off in midday, but there is no other sound save Bloom's heavy breathing. The scene goes to quickly and the camera cannot pause long enough to capture the full force of Joyce's sensual prose...
...Faberge Easter egg, it reveals colts romping in a field of daisies, hunters on the chase, a shadow man and woman walking hand in hand through a forest-all fine, unselfconscious, pre-Freudian images for the awakening love of Dido and Aeneas. The cinematic montage is both opulent and sensual...
...once. Here it's an electric fiddle, pedal steel, lead guitar, bass, banjo, and drums, and they all lend a propensity for jazz-and-rock-like riffs. The Grateful Dead and the New Riders do this with country music, but their songs are different, trippy and abstract rather than sensual and evocative...
Playgirl, billed as "The Magazine for Women," takes the much more relaxed, casual view of what the new woman wants. Created by a night-club owner from Southern California, Playgirl features rugged, virile men generally entertained by some healthy sensual young women. Articles like "Should your Doctor be your Lover?", "Playgirl interviews Rock Hudson," "Anatomy of a live Sex Show" and "The Cosmic Orgasm" are heralded on the cover to entice readers...