Word: sensuality
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...atomic age. But by the early '60s he was also playing a comic-pathetic roue in Divorce, Italian Style; a quiet-spoken syndicalist in The Organizer; a trio of Italian males in Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow. From these disparate parts emerged the full image of Mastroianni: a sensual, reasonable man, agreeably passive, remarkably resilient, lost and vulnerable behind the mask of bravado. A man who wins, or survives, through a weakness: his ironic understanding that his deceits fool no one and charm all. A Continental Cary Grant, full of comic suavity, but with no guaranteed Hollywood happy endings...
This simple, remarkable image--innocent, yet erotic--demonstrates the appeal of food and sex to the Neanderthal within us all. As Itami suggests, we experience the association of food and sensual pleasure in the first day of life, and we never forget...
...difficulties of staging The Bacchae are compounded by some casting restraints. For instance, the chorus of scantily dressed Asian Bacchae, usually made up of at least five players, here had to be reduced to two, Heather Gunn and Nicole Galland. Working overtime, they can't quite convey the sensual grace and exoticism of their roles. Furthermore, they are left with little to do but look engaged as the parade of Thebans passes...
...agreed with that verdict. Wolfe was a best-selling author celebrated for his gargantuan appetites, his 600-page novels with their catalogs of sensual impressions, and his operatic love affair with Stage Designer Aline Bernstein, whom he alternately praised as someone who afforded him the "happiest hours I have ever known" and a "titillative New York Jew." His autobiographical novel Look Homeward, Angel was a sensation, and the title of his third book, You Can't Go Home Again, became a rallying cry. William Faulkner later appraised him as one of the most important contemporary American writers. But even...
...move from the cerebral to the sensual, the year's finest buildings and products exemplify a stunning new materialism...