Word: sensuousness
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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...
...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...
Painter & Poet. For Rossetti, Pre-Raphaelitism was a neomedieval dream of romantic love and beauty. His rich, sensuous canvases became as famous as the poems he wrote to go with them. Rossetti had married the beautiful Elizabeth who for years had served as model for the dreamy, giraffe-necked ladies he painted. When his wife died Rossetti buried his book of unpublished verses in her coffin. Years later he had to exhume his wife's coffin to recover them. Laboriously deciphering the words on the worm-eaten pages, he presented the poems to a public pre-thrilled by their...
Buddhism, which originated in India in the 5th Century B.C., had spread all over the East but practically disappeared from its homeland by the 13th Century A.D.The Buddhist ascendancy mellowed Indian sculpture into a less sensuous character. Instead of the bulbous breasts, swivel hips, wasp waists and whirling, multiple arms of Hinduism's gods, the Buddha had a repose of form and peace of countenance somewhat like that of the greatest Greek sculpture...