Word: sensuousness
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...original flower child. But, as Stony now discovers, his mother was really his father as well, having undergone a sex change at Johns Hopkins Hospital. Poor Stony-suffering from a new version of that old dramatic ailment, the identity crisis-dreams of falling in love with a sensuous plant, which at least has roots. Wintermouth finds and loses the cure for cancer. He is instantaneously transformed from the world's hero into its fool for that carelessness, and he ends up with Hitler's love letters to Eva Braun, which he finds buried in the sand. Still...
Holly Stevens is no Elliott Roosevelt, leaping in where Freud would fear to tread. But she does not shun legitimate speculation: Stevens' oblique, sensuous references and metaphors "bear deeply on a sexual relationship that may have some resemblance to that of my par ents, regardless of whatever literary connotations may be brought to it." Miss Stevens is at her best describing the physical and intellectual ventures of her father - the failed newspaper reporter, the awkward courtier, the relentless reader and overheated connoisseur of painting and music. As for the public burgher, he too is shown in seedling form...
...china sink is hung on a painted canvas, and An Animal, done with oil paint and fur, challenge traditional notions of what a painting is. Underlying the deliberate crudeness and banality of many of the works of this period is a keen sensitivity to and enjoyment of the sensuous feel of paint and the manipulation of brush and pencil. This sensitivity takes the form of subtle relationships between line, tone and texture in his graphic works...
...vacuum-sealed Mason jar in 1858 widened the variety and availability of foodstuffs. Still, little was known about nutrition. Food was food, "one universal aliment," a generalized fuel for the body. The first reformers were not dietitians but moralists who seemed to harbor some squeamishness about the sensuous pleasures of eating. Believing that meat made for hot tempers and sexual excess, the Rev. Sylvester Graham urged the eating of raw fruits and vegetables, food not "compounded and complicated by culinary process." Man should eat food the way God grew it, untouched even by salt and pepper, which, Graham claimed, could...
...score is a shameless pastiche, something that Erich Korngold, the peerless artificer of movie music, would have deeply appreciated. Wagner (including an outright steal of Tristan's theme for Roland), Meyerbeer, Offenbach, all emerge from the pit. The vocal music is lifted mostly from Berlioz, who wrote wonderfully sensuous love duets. The pity is that in Manon, Massenet created an ineffable erotic style...