Word: sensuousness
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...ridden '80s. In the meantime he is working on a biography of Jean Genet and teaching courses on the French playwright and on creative writing at Brown University. Although his semiautobiographical coming-out themes are staples of gay fiction, White has transcended the genre with his wit, attention to sensuous detail and intensely explicit style. Stripping himself as bare as any writer in history, he writes with a passion that is meant to save his soul and those of his readers...
...Stael exhibition now on view at the Phillips Collection in Washington is the first serious attempt in a quarter-century to set him before an American public. "Nicolas de Stael in America" holds, along with a few routine pictures, some marvelous moments. There are paintings whose intelligence and sensuous pressure stop you in your tracks, images that seem all the fresher for their long spell in limbo. And the Phillips Collection is the right place for them. Its founder, Duncan Phillips, was the first American to buy De Stael in depth, and one has only to move to the other...
...identity along with his ethnicity. The world now regards him as an all- American maker of movies and starlets. But in the world of the best seller, when a protagonist rises too high, a pair of lustrous eyes are just around the corner. These belong to Luba, a sensuous young actress with her own hidden background of European tragedy. She triggers memories of his murdered family. Dennison holds them back for 18 chapters while he deals with his ex-wife, his anti-Semitic father-in-law, his estranged daughter, and a series of Celluloid City sharks circling the swimming pool...
...seen without sore feet and framed as a whole in one's mind. It is thorough, scholarly -- Jack Cowart, John Elderfield, Pierre Schneider and others have done a fine job on the catalog -- and, above all, full of exhilaratingly beautiful paintings that have lost none of their sensuous finesse and cerebral sharpness in the nearly 80 years since Matisse made them...
Forbes' most successful piece is "Cow with Tree in Mask." The lively brush strokes and the great depth of color in the tree's foliage make part of the painting commendable. But the picture is weakened by the unrelenting blackness of the mask, which destroys the harmony between sensuous lines and color...