Word: caresses
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...actually means the words. His vocals are rawer, more human; there's even a hint of optimism, a splash of erotic spirituality. The instrumentation goes beyond the usual techno-pop electronics; there are slashing guitars, not just impersonal synthesizers. One track, Judas, has bagpipes; the confessional One Caress features a 20-piece orchestra, including violins; and the almost cathartic Get Right with Me comes complete with a gospel chorus, as Gahan sings, "I will have faith in man . . . Friends, if you've lost your way/ You will find it again someday...
...good amount of credit is due to the Bach Society's Sarah Hicks and Evan Christ for directing very possibly the best orchestra that has played at a student production this year. Crisp and explosive, the strings also show an ability to caress and coax the ear in the in subtler arias. With the exception of several errors in the French horn solo in the second act, the orchestra meets the challenge of Rossini's score...
...princess who finds flint beneath her gentility as she learns to love -- and forces herself to stay with -- this difficult man as he establishes his ministry in a small town. She must find comfort in moments of domestic grace: a chat with her loving father (Max von Sydow), a caress of her pregnant belly by Henrik, who understands that, inside her, there is magic greater than his misery...
...opposite of another contemporary landmark of literary eroticism, the zipless sex of the '70s. Erica Jong's cheesy fiction offered a New Age pardon for the grunting libido of genital-to- genital sex. Zipless meant voiceless. Vox, by contrast, is the ultimate in '90s safe sex: voices, not hands, caress each other as Baker teases out a rambling romp of a conversation followed by simultaneous masturbatory climaxes between partners thousands of miles away...
...years, if he were not as lucky as he proves to be. Catch the cool stare of society dame Drew Preston (Nicole Kidman), the captive, then mistress, of Dutch (Hoffman); her eyes don't move from his as he submits her face to the indignity of a first caress. Listen to the whisper of silk against silk as Drew sashays toward Billy on the night they might make love. From such subtle signals emerges a lopsided triangle: the strong man and two people independent enough to survive him. Billy had first caught Dutch's attention when he juggled four balls...