Word: sensuousness
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...last word uttered by Sidonie Gabrielle Colette on her deathbed in Paris in 1954 was "regarde." To her, it meant to look, feel, wonder, accept, live. For all her 81 years she obeyed that injunction with an immense, daylight sense of reality and a pagan delight in the sensuous experiences that delivered the world to her mind and to the blue note paper on which she recorded it. The Blue Lantern, written between 1946 and 1948 and now translated into English for the first time, is Colette's last major work-a moving but unsentimental record...
...America, Critic John Baur once wrote in an excellent Whitney Museum monograph, "the bitterness and disgust which had inspired the great German drawings evaporated like night mist." Grosz painted the Manhattan skyline and the city's lights and signs. Instead of decay, he drew sensuous female nudes-the human body exploding with youth and health. Instead of ugliness, he drew and painted lyrical pictures of Cape Cod. Edmund Wilson recalls how fascinated Grosz was by the idealized life pictured in American ads showing handsome young people with every material blessing. The scourge of Berlin, it seemed, had lost...
Touch--this sensuous term simply means out of bounds. The ball must then be thrown in by the side which did not put it in touch. It must be passed in through a "lineout" formation in which the teams line up parallel to each other, and then jump for the ball, trying to kick it to their team-mates...
Please Touch. "Stones must register the mind of nature more than anything else," says Nagare, and through them he enters into a dialogue with nature: "We Orientals seem more apt at it than Westerners." At his exhibitions, he posts signs reading PLEASE TOUCH. "I'm afraid the sensuous joys of touch have been far too long confined to boudoirs," says he. So he polishes his sculpture mirror-smooth with grindstones, sometimes for months...
Geographically, Argentina's Leopoldo Torre Nilsson and Sweden's Ingmar Bergman are poles apart; esthetically, the two directors are quite close. Both record the contortions of provincial puritanism in a style of sensuous opulence. Torre Nilsson is less intense and less profound, but he has something vivid and ironic to say about a society in which women are fenced like cattle and cattle are allowed to run free...