Word: eroticizing
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Fata Morgana. Here is The Moon Flower, in which Elsie Ferguson opened the preceding week (TIME, March 10), shifted back to the Hungary whence its hero came to stake his heart at Monte Carlo. In this case, the one night of love is turned on by the woman, who turns...
Both these artists depend upon color for their ultimate emotional expression, and Fish especially handles her medium with dashingly modern and exotic, not to say erotic, effect, combining it with glittering overlays of gold and silver and with rich arabesques of pen-and-ink design which suggest alternately Leon Bakst...
The opera (a play by Wilde, set to music by Richard Strauss) is said to be "a danger to public morals." The Strauss score, though, has had, in other cities, small public appeal. It is a true masterpiece, but one of recondite perplexities. It moves only persons of considerable musical...
DESOLATE SPLENDOR?Michael Sadleir?Putnam ($2.00). Here is all the mechanism of a mid-Victorian thriller, set forth in a suavely rococo style, at times a trifle suggestive of Bulwer-Lytton?a Ouida plot elaborated with deliberate ornateness. The wicked Earl paints his eyelids. The innocent ward of a charming...
Justice John Ford of the Supreme Court of New York, like Polonius, had a daughter. One day, so the story goes, he caught her reading D. H. Lawrence's Women in Love. It is a very long novel, an erudite and obscure novel, and some critics say - among them...