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...appear vulgar and wimpy. On the other hand, we would be pretty shocked and disturbed by the amount of sexual violence and coercion that was a fact in the nineteenth century. We’d feel like prudes in each other’s company. 6. FM: Which is steamier: Penthouse or Leopold von Sacher-Masoch’s “Venus in Furs?”MBK: Penthouse. It’s not steamy to me...but “Venus in Furs” is not a steamy novel at all. Von Sacher-Masoch has a particular...
...behavior that persists today. From 1990 to 1994, Harvard and Princeton did a tuition tango that raised tuitions at virtually the same rate each year and consistently resulted in base prices within $10 to $195 of each other. Penn and Columbia did likewise, ending each year in an even steamier embrace--within $36 to $110 of each other--even though the costs of doing business in Manhattan are far higher...
...Johnny would probably not be a good choice for a first date, nor for a family outing on Junior Parents' Weekend. Likewise, if you can't handle touchy-feely discussion or explicit love scenes, this play is not for you. However, for intense emotions, some good laughs and a steamier scene than you'll find on any other Harvard stage--it's worth the trek to the Quad...
...such excitement. The performances on the four-city circuit (New York, Washington, San Francisco, Los Angeles) are practically sold out. At the Metropolitan Opera House the crowds have patiently worked their way through strict security checks. Arguments among balletomanes about whether the company lives up to its legend are steamier than Manhattan sidewalks. Bolshoi means big, and this bravura ensemble virtually defines...
...walk in the Jardin des Plantes and hear the big cats roaring and coughing a few hundred yards away in their iron cages, jungle sounds floating to him through a screen of lush foliage. He "knew" what the Nile looked like, and the Niger, and the Amazon: muddier and steamier than the Seine, and lined with a frieze of swollen aspidistras. Out of this, on occasion, he could distill incantation. The Snake Charmer, 1907, condenses a huge popular imagery of the noble savage and the mysterious East. Its wonderful flora--the light ocher blooms like hydrangeas or brains, the green...