Word: sensuousness
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With her full, sensuous mouth, long-lashed blue eyes and cascading blond hair, she was one of the most seductive starlets of the postwar years. But as the looks faded and a web of wrinkles covered a once lovely face, she gave some of her most memorable performances in the roles of older women. She also scored unexpected triumphs with her pen, publishing three best-selling books since 1976. When she died last week at 64, of cancer, in the Normandy village of Autheuil-Authouillet, Simone Signoret had attained far more than movie stardom. "For more than 40 years," declared...
...codes in composing a personal ad. One specifies DWF (divorced white female), SBM (single black male), GWM (gay white male) and so on, to describe marital status, race, sex. Readers should understand the euphemisms. "Zaftig" or "Rubenesque," for example, usually means fat. "Unpretentious" is liable to mean boring. "Sensuous" means the party likes...
...attempts at stylistic harmony in his design for the New State Gallery in Stuttgart, which opened last year. The exquisitely proportioned classic entrance hall is assaulted by a bilious green Pirelli rubber floor covering and the gaudily painted steel frame of the elevator shaft. The circular interior courtyard, with sensuous marble nymphs basking in the glow of golden travertine and sandstone walls, is assaulted by vulgar pink and blue pipes that serve as handrails for a spiraling ramp...
Some sterner souls want to deprive their bodies of wine, good food and other sensuous pleasures altogether. "The sixties generation is no longer engaged in political activity . . . People feel profoundly guilty and are directing that guilt against themselves," said Historian William Leach in a New York magazine article last year. "Running, fasting, enables them to feel whole and pure and clean again." Most people are not going that far, according to Cornell University Psychology Professor Michael Sacks, but he adds, "It has become a sign of status, as a whole, sensuous human being, to have the ability to control your...
...principle but perhaps also because he could not dream of bridling his ferocious drive to invent and surprise. He seems to create buildings with the spirit other architects might bring to an amusement park. His work at its best is lyrical and joyously jam-packed, smart and sensuous, like a Nabokov story. He believes buildings should even be erotic. In the first of two shops he designed for Schul- lin jewelers in Vienna--a plush, narrow space with an irregular fissure in the gleaming facade--the allusion seems downright genital...