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...Rosenkavalier she was by turns amorous, petulant, rueful, forgiving, giving vibrant conviction to her understanding of the Marschallin as "the typical sensuous woman." And with her pure soprano under fine control, she was even more impressive in Capriccio, the gentle "conversation piece for music" that stands as Strauss's operatic testament. The triumph was doubly remarkable because Capriccio is all talk and no action, an 18th century intellectual argument over the relative merits of words and music. Said Schwarzkopf, elated but astonished at her success: "Two Italian singers and some dancers appear, the countess changes her dress -and that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: A Happy Balance | 2/23/1962 | See Source »

...Havilland and Barry Sullivan) with an emotionally harrowing problem: they have a mentally defective daughter (Yvette Mimieux). Kicked by a pony in childhood, the girl has the mind of a ten-year-old girl in the body of a startlingly beautiful young woman. In fact, the girl's sensuous attractions are so spectacular that most young men thoughtlessly fail to notice her mental limitations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: What Should Mother Do? | 2/16/1962 | See Source »

Marie Laforet alternates between passion and great delicacy in the part of the sensuous, yet sensitive and enigmatic Marge. Unable to resist her painful attraction for Phillipe, she is successively tortured, loving, jealous, injured, and despite her mercurial temperament, always in character...

Author: By Stephen C. Rogers, | Title: Purple Noon (Plein Soleil) | 10/9/1961 | See Source »

...Simple & Sensuous. Torun early discovered that most European women had only two choices in buying jewelry: either the impossibly expensive or the gaudily cheap. Her own pieces sell for as little as $4, rarely cost more than $120. Torun's clients include Sweden's Princess Margaretha, Ingrid Bergman, Juliette Greco, Oona Chaplin and Duke Ellington. Once, in Biot, an 80-year-old washerwoman stopped Torun in the street and said: "I saw your daughter Pia wearing a lovely necklace. Would you make one like it for my daughter?" Happily, Torun...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Silversmith of Biot | 9/1/1961 | See Source »

...simple circle necklaces to which a variety of pendants can be added and which can thus be used on any occasion. But mostly her work is done with a particular client in mind: "Jewelry must marry the contours of a woman's body-in a word, be sensuous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Silversmith of Biot | 9/1/1961 | See Source »

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