Word: sensuousness
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Despite the fact that Shaw wrote juicy roles for women, there is not a sensuous, genuinely appealing or thoroughly believable female character in all of his plays. Shaw simply used women tactically in order to make fun of the ideas, authority, and personalities of men with whom he happened to disagree. He conferred on women the mask of reason, but behind that cover lay the clever, arrogant, self-absorbed mind of G.B.S. Lady Cicely Waynflete (Bergman) is one of Shaw's perennial Little Miss Super-Fix-Its. She just happens to be among the brigands and bedouins of North...
...likely to make. More than a mere maker of movies, he has resolved to be a director-cum- personality and so has entered the front line of media in-fighting. At its most harmless this includes the kind of toothless satire of such cultural balloons as The Sensuous Woman and Love Story. At its most petty it is a bitter parody of New York critic John Simon, who made the grievous error of disliking The Last Picture Show. (Simon has retaliated by calling Barbra Streisand "a cross between an aardvark and an albino rat surmounted by a horse...
...routinely patronized for its "feminine" qualities: "Judged by the norms ... of the prevailing de Kooning style that Frankenthaler rejected, her art was seen as reckless, thin, uncontrolled, uncomposed, lacking in impact, and too sweet in color." Today, it is possible to see her best work as a triumph of sensuous integration: that iron sweetness, that blooming and expansive surge of color, is unequaled among living American artists...
...Tropic of Cancer, his first published work, was a shout of exultation. Miller, emerging free from the shackles of superfluous duties to society, was suddenly beset by a tremendous hunger for the sensuous life available in Paris. His book asserted the joy of the present and laid the foundation for a lifelong detachment from the ruin of a material universe, a spiritual self-sufficiency which bordered on solipsism...
...Decorative" was no insult to Vuillard. He thought decoration one of the higher functions of art, and he was right. Even in the stubbornly worked-out compositions of his later years, Vuillard described microcosms we can still enter-hospitable and mischievous, articulate in every detail, a long triumph of sensuous integration...