Word: sensuous
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Hugo could not know that, for all their sentiment, Sarah found diamonds a mite conventional. Her taste tended to more sensuous things-she could not resist the sinuous ruby-eyed snake bracelet and ring designed by Art Nouveau Painter Alphonse Mucha and crafted by Jewelsmith Georges Fouquet for her première in Cleopatra, went in hock (she was frequently broke, though her earnings topped $9,000,000) for about $2,000 to have it. To make sure she paid, Fouquet turned up at the theater box office regularly each week to collect his share of the receipts...
BLOCH: QUINTET FOR PIANO AND STRINGS (Concert-Disc). Best known for his powerful and sensuous Hebraic music (Schelo-mo and Sacred Service), Bloch also wrote other works, like the 1923 quintet, that are not specifically of Jewish inspiration but are also lavishly colored and emotionally evocative. The floating violins of the Fine Arts Quartet properly take precedence in virtuosity, even over the shimmering piano of Frank Glazer...
...Grammophon; 4 LPs). Herbert von Karajan's greatest strength lies in the romantic repertory, and one would expect an outstanding set of performances, especially following his recent highly successful recording of the nine Beethoven symphonies. The Berlin Philharmonic sounds as lustrous as ever, and there are wonderful, broad, sensuous swells of melody. But Von Karajan too often masks structure with sonority, allows the pulse to waver and then summons portentous climaxes that turn out to be no more substantial than giant thunderheads with more noise than content...
...plot of From Russia With Love is based on Bond's gaming instinct. The chief of an underworld organization called SPECTRE calculates that the carrot of a secret Russian decoding machine along with a sensuous blond would be more than 007 could resist. By eliminating his enemies for him, SPECTRE attempts to build his confidence in his own luck until he finally overplays his hand. But they fail to consider that James Bond is that special kind of gambler, he always wins...
...specializes in counterfeit intellectual currency: man is a hopeless victim of his own technology; sex is the only natural act remaining to man; life is just awful. It was awful in Moravia's early novels (The Woman of Rome, Conjugal Love), but somehow it was described with sensuous excitement. In his recent books (The Empty Canvas, Roman Tales), the excitement has progressively decelerated, and in the present collection of 41 short stories Moravia has attained what might most charitably be described as a creative pause. His milieu is comfortable, upper-middle-class Italy. His characters are dead souls, stifled...