Word: sensuousness
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...with couples who, for reasons other than "egoism or hedonism," are unable to observe the teaching. "Evangelical tolerance," the bishops suggested, should take into account the difficulties that many couples experience "in trying to reconcile the demands of responsible parenthood with those of their reciprocal love, which is both sensuous and spiritual...
...Franciosa is People's handsome, daring ace reporter. His editor (Gene Barry) occupies an office that is only slightly more opulent than, say, Hugh Hefner's pad. Expense-account cash is as abundant and accessible as scratch paper. The researchers are not only resolutely clever but demure, sensuous and beautiful...
...those who seek refuge in conventional words, a few are supplied. They are, however, often as inscrutable as the rest of the contents. In a dissertation on the virtues of silence, Writer Susan Sontag declares: "Notoriously, the sensuous, ecstatic translinguistic apprehension of the plenum can collapse in a terrible, almost instantaneous plunge into the void of negative silence." Actually, the ads that are stuffed into the box are as entertaining as anything else. "Should we also flood the Sistine Chapel," asks the Sierra Club, fighting a dam downstream from the Grand Canyon, "so tourists can get nearer the ceiling...
PORTRAIT OF A QUEEN is part dear-diary journal and part dusty political imbroglios, but mostly a record of a woman who also happened to be Queen Victoria. Dorothy Tutin wears the role like a tiara, moving from a spoiled child of power to a yielding, sensuous wife to a desolate widow with the fatigue of existence in her voice...
...they look like so many identical windup dolls, Joffrey encourages his dancers to express their own personalities. Feathery Lisa Bradley, 20, is a fragilely beautiful study in symmetry; fiery Luis Fuente, 20, is built like a blockbuster and has the same impact; sinuous Trinette Singleton, 19, dances like a sensuous nymph out for a gambol; and then there is airborne Robert Blankshine, 19, who has mastered the neat little trick of sailing into the wings as he kicks the back of his head. They all help give the Joffrey Ballet its hallmark: go power plus grow power...