Word: sensuous
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...sunniest slave, a film of sensuous austerity. Alain Cavalier's biography plays the incidents in Therese's life as terse vignettes. The background is a spare, off-white wall. There are no raised voices or unnecessary gestures. Here stark 19th century mysticism meets skeptical 20th century minimalism. But, as Therese did with God, the film serves its subject, rather than imposing an ironic gloss. It communicates a girl's consuming joy in finding, in Jesus, the object of her obsession. It also takes a peasant's pleasure in the texture and even the temperature of every icon, from...
...forward-looking sectors of the American art audience were waiting for pictures like these, sensuous and sharp, which spoke to the intuitions of transcendentalism in the up-to-the-minute terms of the machine age. For all their shimmer, they had a just-the-facts quality that proposed the romantic impulse as the highest form of lucidity. (That they could also be sexually voluptuous, something Weston claimed was unintended, did not hurt.) What he had hit upon, of course, was how high definition and distortions of scale could make objects more uncanny even as it made them more palpable...
...practical utopia of the senses, a bourgeois Eden whose roots wound back through a coastal peasant culture (still unhurt by tourism in the 1920s) to the Greco-Roman past. Instead of the pie in the sky offered by constructivism, they contemplated the langoustes on the table, bringing their sensuous embodiment to an extraordinary pitch of imaginative precision in which mere fantasy had no role...
...highway, emitting bird cries, singing in her own language. Civic Leader Earl Culver (Spalding Gray) uses tomatoes and peppers to illustrate a dinner-table harangue on the fragmenting of capitalism; the lobster centerpiece revolves and glows. A middle-age executive, alone in his office late at night, practices a sensuous boogaloo. In the cozy heart of Reagan's America, the renegade spirit stirs. And Byrne is unlikely to care whether you laugh or scratch your head...
...impressions: the beliefs handed down by his mother and father vs. the animism of village rituals, particularly the tradition of the egungun, the ancestral spirits who can be summoned whenever their masks are displayed at local festivals. For a time, the boy had the best of both worlds: the sensuous, + imaginative life of Africa and a Western education, first at college in Ibadan near his village and then at the University of Leeds in Britain, where he earned a B.A. in English literature in 1957. After graduation he worked as a teacher and scriptwriter for London's Royal Court Theater...