Word: sensuality
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DIED. Whitney Balliett, 80, dean of jazz criticism, mostly for the New Yorker, whose vivid, sensual and impressionistic writing on the exploding medium mirrored the exuberance and cadence of the music itself; in New York City. His prose made palpable the styles and physicality of performers like drummer "Big Sid" Catlett (whose "huge hands ... reduced the drumsticks to pencils") and trumpeter "Doc" Cheatham (whose solos were "a succession of lines, steps, curves, parabolas, angles and elevations"). Defining his role as appreciative witness as opposed to stern judge, he and writer Nat Hentoff in 1957 put together TV's The Sound...
...Antibodi Well, who said this theme was exclusively white? With its lip-smackingly red accents, Patricia Urquiola's hammock-like Antibodi chair is almost flirtatious. Created by the Spanish designer for Moroso, its petal pattern conjures images of lying on a bed of water lilies. Sensual bliss. www.moroso.it...
...depend on language. Babies, many animals and patients robbed of speech by brain damage are not insensate robots; they have reactions like ours that indicate that someone's home. Nor can consciousness be equated with self-awareness. At times we have all lost ourselves in music, exercise or sensual pleasure, but that is different from being knocked out cold...
That is until I recognized that the bewildering political maneuverings are simply a cardboard backdrop for Letty’s quest for erotic gratification. This ugly duckling will have her tryst. She will find Love. She will learn that she is “Sensual. Seductive. Desirable...
...mimics--is her unfussy, wry, practical approach to entertaining and quality comfort food. You can believe, or not, that guacamole and chili are the first things this wealthy, cosmopolitan hostess thinks of when she throws a dinner party. Either way, between the luscious camera shots and Lawson's sensual enjoyment of eating, Feasts will leave you wishing for an invite...