Word: eroticizing
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Moravia has a ready, if somewhat specious, rationale for the erotic in his books. "It is the result of our highly industrialized mechanical living. Men have been victimized by their technology ... To them the sexual act is the only natural act left.'' It is hard to see Dino...
Among the pre-teen set, the back seat of the family car enjoys all the erotic mystery of an Algerian brothel; in more adult circles, however, I had always assumed that it would take more than a necking scene in a Model A to titillate or provoke. Elia Kazan and...
The defense will introduce a battery of witnesses--from men of letters, who will try to establish the book's literary merit and show how conventions and proprieties in modern literature are shifting rapidly, to a psychologist, who may try to give the defense's version of the impact of...
With this upsetting overture, the curtain in Venice's handsome La Fenice theater rose one night last week for one of the wackiest premieres in operatic history. Presumably, the select group of invited critics and music lovers came with the expectation of hearing The Spanish Lady and The Roman...
What Wagner did require was an "elemental, erotic quality," and he found it in Mezzo Soprano Bumbry's voice, a naturally glorious, bronzelike instrument that ranged through the house with impressive power. But because Wieland's concept of the staging allowed Venus about as much movement as a...