Word: sensuousness
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...more superficial than he when commenting on the causes of contemporary misery ("If politicians can clean up the messes they have made and are making, then Paris will be the old place again"), but it is precisely this relaxed laziness of thought that gives him not only his sensuous warmth but his faculty to echo, like a verbatim record, whatever scenes or conversations may happen to brush up against his impressionable senses...
Last week, 90 days later, Kaleidoscope's voluptuous maiden issue (372 high-styled pages plus a sensuous blue-green cover) appeared. Overnight the monthly became the talk of the trade. Aimed at fashion executives instead of their customers, it was a "multiple magazine" with 15 departments (for cosmetics, coats, lingerie, etc.), each with its own editorial and advertising sections...
...high points-Thunderhead's sensuous, rushing and wheeling courtship dance with the night-sleek Crown Jewel, and the heartbreaking, helpless panic of the two horses when the mare has foundered belly-deep in sucking mud-present unused possibilities of much greater suspense and excitement than the man-made climax of the trotting heats...
...deep/Receding blue . . ." It is a pity that only one of his poems has been printed in an issue so barren of this kind of dynamic and beautiful writing. Joan Hyde's atmospheric "Night Picture" communicates through precise visual detail, but her other poem is less successful because it leaves sensuous impressions and starts trying to delve into the abstract...
...film treats nature as purely and honorably as it treats man. There is no elaborate composing, no fancy work with filters or soft focus, no picturesqueness: the camera merely accepts and sensitively records the more than sufficient beauty of the world it sees. For unadorned, undoctored beauty, immediacy and sensuous abundance, the film is unique...