Word: sensuality
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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However he feels around cod, Gift has a smooth, soulful way around a tune. His voice sounded a little uncertain on a remake of Elvis' Suspicious Minds, from the first Cannibals album, Fine Young Cannibals, released in 1985. The sensual assurance Gift acquired on The Raw & the Cooked may come from some special attention he has been lavishing on his vocal cords. "I do go to see someone now and again for guidance about my voice," he reports. "But it's for moral guidance, because I think there's more to singing than just songs." A Cannibals tune like...
Quietly, Lear recedes as the band of vocal editors suggests fresh definitions: "sensual," "off the nest," "reborn," "glamourized," "well maintained." "Too much like automobiles," trills Lear, shooting across the room like a small comet. At 65, she's delicately handsome: 5 ft. 6 in., 115 lbs., with a taut dancer's body, sandblasted jawline, thick uncolored platinum hair and barely a trace of makeup except for one "expensive cosmetic," the face-lifting, her first done in her late 40s. Her fastidiously tailored look is accented by understated braided-gold Cartier jewelry and a black-band Tiffany watch. But behind...
WHILE past freshmen got to bundle up in layer after layer of sweaters and long johns, long, woolly scarves around their noses and eight pairs of socks, we wear shorts and T-shirts. We may never know the sensual pleasure of entering a warm room and having all the snow on our clothes melt and soak the carpet...
...internal-combustion engine, banned a host of consumer products, from microwave ovens to electric can openers, and expropriated all waterfront property. They have also encouraged such an independent spirit in women that they have become sexual predators and even control the ruling party. Into this world of spartan but sensual living comes a reporter, the first American to visit Ecotopia since independence, to explore Ecotopian technology, the almost religious reverence for nature, and social habits, both appealing and appalling...
...mind when, in another famous essay, she declared herself "against interpretation." In her view, interpretation had become a means to reduce unruly art and literature to its manageable "content," a way of rendering art's raw power more digestible. She wanted more attention paid to art's sensual capabilities, to the way it works upon consciousness through the imprint of its form and surfaces. It was all summed up in her famous phrase: "Interpretation is the revenge of the intellect upon...