Word: sensuously
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...specialist in nudes, Artist Peirce has a finely sensuous feeling for barns. In the last decade, he has painted a dozen unexcelled canvasses of the light-shot, hay-filled interiors of sunlit barns. But Maine folk would never stand for a naked woman walking around in a cowshed. So Painter Peirce first sketched his barn, then came to Manhattan to locate an appropriate model and paint his canvas...
Gladys Davis' backstage scenes were dashing, sensuous records of ballet biography. Typical was Changing Costumes, a crowded dressing-room scene featuring ballerinas sprawled in narcissistic attitudes in a welter of make-up bottles, ribbons, slippers, mirrors, electric glares...
...composition that brought cheers from Carnegie Hall's audience was Bruckner's Te Deum. Like all of his major works it is large, vigorous, austerely religious-a vast tonal shrine. Its melodies are plain-spoken rather than pretty; it has little sensuous appeal. But when Conductor Bruno Walter, the New York Philharmonic and the 176-voice Westminster Choir rose to its climaxes, admirers felt they were hearing music equaled in cumulative power only by the most massive scores in symphonic music...
...year-old TIME Correspondent Jack Belden, Burma was not just a politico-military tragedy. It was also a fantastic personal adventure, a dream, a series of violent, sick, hot, ruinous and sensuous images. He crowds them into a dynamic account of the Burmese ordeal...
...Robertsons never called themselves "planters." They are dirt farmers, with no pillared porticoes. They have been Democrats since Jefferson's first term. They have been Baptists since before the Great Revival in 1800. In a hot and sensuous land, they are the fierce inheritors of "the direct Protestant Reformation...