Word: sexless
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...many countertenors have small voices that are eerily sexless, hardly what Handel had in mind for such heroic roles as Sextus Pompey in Julius Caesar (the vehicle for Daniels' Met debut), who kills the king of Egypt in revenge for the murder of his father. That's one reason that Daniels makes so powerful an impression. His full-blooded alto is big enough to bounce off the back wall of the Met, with a cut and thrust that is wholly masculine, yet when he sings softly, you couldn't ask for a sweeter sound...
...Geromes and Bouguereaus he saw, with their pale, continuously rounded flesh (tubular, in a way) and their meticulous highlights, influenced the "Tubism" of his maturing style. The manikins in his Contrast of Form paintings, such as Exit the Ballets Russes, 1914, project a strange mixture of nervousness and solidity--sexless tin men bustling about in a narrow, overcrowded space...
DIED. MAE QUESTEL, 89, helium-toned actress who gave voice to the coyly sexy Betty Boop and the coarsely sexless Olive Oyl; in New York City. Over the years, Questel displayed vocal versatility as the voice of Casper the Friendly Ghost, Winky Dink and Swee'Pea. Though she was featured in over 1,900 films, Questel once complained that she could walk down a New York City street without being recognized. In one of her last film roles, she played a caricature of a different sort, Woody Allen's mother in the movie New York Stories...
...endogenous. If a woman reported to work "dressed up," she would get dirty looks from her female co-workers. In general, hair-dos and clothing were "modest and attractive" according to a book on female fashion Soviet style. It's not that Soviet women were expected to be completely sexless. They were just not allowed to assert themselves as any sort of symbol of womanly beauty. They were utilitarian bearers of children and workers in the Soviet system...
...cured of his homosexuality after an affair with a student at Houston's University of St. Thomas led to his being fired as a music professor. (He had been fired from another job for similar reasons in 1964.) He reportedly confided to a lover that he longed for sexless devotion, passion without physical entanglements. Whatever the facts, Applewhite spun his own myth: the personal turmoil was the result of his body's coming under the influence of a being from the "Next" level, part of the discovery that...