Word: sensuousness
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Magritte fails, not because it is difficult to follow his dream logic-it is quite conceivable that sometime it might start raining men in derby hats. Magritte's divorce from reality is sensuous enough to appeal to sensibility, but his carefully rendered iconography is so personal that it suggests only a visible world in which no one ever lived. These images are deliberately insoluble puzzles, meticulously worked-out scenarios of subtle shock calculated to spur the unconscious. But contemporary man finds enough anxiety in the very air that he breathes and more challenging puzzles in the streets that...
...Harvard Radcliffe Orchestra baptized itself Friday night in a sensuous swamp--Strauss' Don Juan, Berg's Violin Concerto, and Berlioz' Symphonie Fantastique--and emerged after two hours smelling very sweet...
...Sensuous Porsche...
...unadulterated pleasure and appreciation of driving the finest of its kind, you are right. Until you sit in the cockpit of this little giant killer and push the tach up to 5,500 r.p.m. in second or third gear, not to mention fourth, you will never know how delightfully sensuous driving...
Hugo could not know that, for all their sentiment, Sarah found diamonds a mite conventional. Her taste tended to more sensuous things-she could not resist the sinuous ruby-eyed snake bracelet and ring designed by Art Nouveau Painter Alphonse Mucha and crafted by Jewelsmith Georges Fouquet for her première in Cleopatra, went in hock (she was frequently broke, though her earnings topped $9,000,000) for about $2,000 to have it. To make sure she paid, Fouquet turned up at the theater box office regularly each week to collect his share of the receipts...