Word: sensuous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Latin Brio. The neo-pagan life of love and love of life revealed to Carmela in these reveries make The Film of Memory a sensuous shelfmate to David Garnett's recently published Aspects of Love (TIME, Jan. 30). French Novelist Maurice Druon, a Prix Goncourt winner, applies Latin brio and an urbane Gallic prose style to his tale, and he can navigate the rapids of a zany stream of consciousness without drowning the reader...
...Patrick's affections. By novel's end, Soula has died at her brother's hand. Resignedly estranged from each other, Patrick and Iris leave Corfu chewing the bitter rind of memory, all that is left of their brief repast of the juices and joys of the sensuous life...
...hemi-Ophelia, but her softness is a fine contrast to the hard shape of Richard. Pamela Brown as the king's mistress, a role tellingly interpolated by Olivier, is magically effective; she says but four words ("Good morrow, my lord"), but she hangs in the offing like a sensuous portrait by Rubens, and fills the court with just the kind of sexual music Shakespeare meant when he spoke of "the lascivious pleasing of a lute...
...certain astonishment-for I had made the 'great circle,' coming back after 35 years to an art that was, superficially, not unlike the canvases of my youth." From the '205 through the '405, Macdonald-Wright had deserted his theory for experimental work ranging from sensuous figure studies to Braque-like still lifes. But after a trip to Japan four years ago, he began working again in the style of his earlier abstractions. Studying Japanese art and Oriental philosophy, he found a strength and "interior realism" that he felt was the missing element in his Paris paintings...
There is a unique quality about Italian sopranos that makes their singing especially exciting. On Wednesday night Renata Tebaldi provided an excellent example of Italian singing at its best. Her voice is more sensuous and passionate than Elizabeth Schwarzkopf's, but lacks the cool perfection of the Viennese singer's style...