Word: sensualist
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...exploitable innocence; she is a property that he can ride our of his world of cars and girls--into a world of faster cars and faster girls. Hugh Hefner (Played with den-mother benevolence by pajama-clad Cliff Robertson) is Snider's Buddha, and the Playboy Mansion his sensualist's nirvana. He impresses Dorothy with his tacky style; he gives her a real two-carat topaz; he escorts her to her senior prom in a ruffled sky-blue tuxedo. Eric Roberts is a brilliantly spoiled and clutching Snider--he has as many wants as a child on Santa's knee...
Portrait of a Sensualist...
...conscience. Martin (Stephen D. Newman), a bisexual member of the diplomatic corps who vastly prefers men, delivers his sardonic lines with Wildean brio. He describes his forays among the local boys as "doing my bit for Anglo-Arab relations." Martin's frustrated wife Jill (Holly Barren), a sensualist with an unbridled tongue, tries to get a bit of her own back in a horizontal frolic with Ian (Christopher Curry), a soccer star. But hot as he is for Jill, Ian proves dismayingly un-proficient off the playing field...
...interviewing those paid to care for the elderly, introduces her to many new people. But in an already cluttered, lengthy novel, this endless procession of new characters does little more than add confusion and tedium. Even Isabel's closest friends--Eleanor, a flighty sensualist, and Liz, a strong-willed lesbian--are not terribly interesting until they are forced to confront each other...
...sexual behavior a consequence of syphilis acquired in youth? Possibly, says de Jonge, but Madame Baudelaire was a more likely cause. Charles, an only child, adored her to distraction. His career as a long-distance sensualist began with the click of her jewelry, the textures of her silks and satins, the perfume from her furs. He wrote of "the green paradise of infant love," defining genius as "childhood rediscovered at will." Underneath the mask of decadence, the prematurely aging face with its repertoire of grimaces, was a youth of retarded innocence, a closet Dorian Gray...