Word: sensuous
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...less daring than in years past, last week's collections seemed decidedly more wearable. Dior's Bohan bolstered his stock of gowns with evening pantsuits in sensuous fabrics. Scherrer leaned toward a Chaplinesque look in suits, and even outfitted his models with bowler hats and canes...
...tubs and their devotees. To Wayne Koestenbaum '80, hot tubbers are "a certain genre of people. Men who write poetry to get in touch with the feminine in themselves, women who want to get back to Mother Earth, who want harmony in their bodies... people interested in exploring every sensuous possibility there...
...hard to swallow, it is partly because the epic is flecked with moments of perverse brutality, a kind of sensuous enjoyment of the grotesque. At the film's end, scenes that made the audience shudder aloud in the opening few minutes are repeated; and now they seem commonplace, even acceptable, for the film had had far more brutal moments. At times, Bertolucci's love for vivid detail and for visual lushness results in scenes of great beauty--a bride galloping on a white horse through the mist and poplar trees, a small boy playing in the river, a group...
...designs range from what Zakas calls "Big Stuff' to "Small Stuff' and encompass just about every kind of furnishing. One project, designed under Zakas' supervision by Parsons Student Stephanie Dieterich, is titled "the Knockdownable Sensuous Topograph"; a cross between a playpen and a bed, it is easily disassembled and can be made for about $40. A less felicitously named objet, a 4 ft. 10 in.-long coffee table designed by Student Greg Peterson, is called "Plumber's Dream"; a bronzed glass top mounted on plastic piping and sundry elbows and joints, it has a kind...
...last year). The current season is only his second as music director, and the verdict about his abilities as a collector and builder of talent is not yet in. But on the podium this young man is clearly an unceasing source of adrenaline for his singers and players. The sensuous darting about of the violins in the Act I bacchanal was all gossamer. The onstage trumpets during the entry march of the minnesingers in Act II were like a close-order drill in their precision. The delicate?and decidedly Mendelssohnian?woodwind passage accompanying Elisabeth's farewell was appropriately ethereal...