Word: sensuousness
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...BOOKS Sensuous dreams of Cubans: Cristina Garcia's first novel...
...vibes infect too many of those closest to him. But mostly this is a celebration. The film pays tribute to the unslakable ambitions of the next-to-last group of immigrants who embraced the capaciousness of the American promise. See The Mambo Kings -- attend to its music and its sensuous moves -- and try, just try, to keep from dancing out of the theater. For two bouncy hours, whether you are a gas pumper in Omaha or an art dealer looking for new canvases to conquer, you can be a Cuban in love...
Johns' works from the last two decades at the Sackler continue some of those past interests: news-print as Surrealist collage in the Dutch Wives and the self-referentiality of reproducing his own earlier prints in the painting Untitled 1984. Critics have often noted Johns' latent interest in sensuous matter and conceptual paradox; those interests now reign supreme, as the older Johns contemplates the failure of the erotic, in addition to the link between sex and death (especially in the Tantric Details...
...things, a children's video. He is narrator of The Elephant's Child, an adaptation of Rudyard Kipling's whimsical story about how the elephant got its trunk. Backed by the music of Bobby McFerrin, Nicholson gives a droll, spirited reading, wrapping his tongue around Kipling's sensuous words -- "the great, gray-green, greasy Lim-po-po River" -- like a gourmet savoring oysters...
...colors -- bright, sensuous, all enveloping -- tell the story of a young Chinese woman, her brutal husband and her timid lover. Fate enshrouds them, as it has Zhang Yimou's beautiful film: Ju Dou has never played publicly in China, and the authorities tried unsuccessfully to rescind its Oscar nomination as Best Foreign Film...