Word: sensuously
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...ballet's future. But the Monte Carlo Ballet Russe and the development of Choreographer Leonide Massine gave him fresh hope. The Monte Carlo Ballet, now on the verge of a five months' U. S. tour. has four outstanding dancers : handsome David Lichine, spectacular for his leaps, his sensuous grace; pretty feathery Tatiana Riabouchinska, whom Colonel de Basil has insured against marriage; dark dynamic Tamara Tamounova and Irina Baronova. The greatest of these, says Critic Haskell, is Baronova, 15, ashy, pale-haired Russian emigrée who grew up in the Balkans, studied in Paris with the Imperial ballerina...
Built around, and sustained by the sensuous strains of Ravel's "Bolero," this film loses much of its effect when the rendition of the feature scene fails to come up to the mark. The recurrence of appealing waltzes and tangoes with the accomplished dancing of George Raft, Carole Lombard, and Frances Drake, and the absence of leg extravaganzas and water scenes, combine to make it a picture considerably above the average of musical revues...
...Sensuous Tony's first experiment in love-making was with his more mature cousin Evelyn. In Paris, at 18, he thought he was in love with Margaret, a proper young hypocrite whom he kissed in the woods beyond St. Cloud. His mother's sudden death in a carriage accident put an end to that affair for a while. Then he went to Italy, where his tourist impressions were noted with great care, and finally to the Mediterranean island of Aeaea, "twelve hours from Naples," which is mythical. Mythical or not, there he met Katharina, "Katha" for short...
Because humbly-born Reza Shah did not inherit his Throne but wrested Persia's Government from weak, sensuous, do-nothing Ahmed Shah by a coup d'état in 1921, TIME will continue to call His Imperial Majesty "dynamic, self-made...
...painting, such as it is, depicting three dancing burlesque girls wholly lacking in form and beauty (one slightly cross-eyed and all ugly, fat, misshapen and sensuous) is a misnomer of its title. Remember, burlesque has done no harm to art. Why should art attempt to harm burlesque?" The Minskys asked $50,000 damages...