The relentless humidity of July in New Orleans doesn't make it the most seductive time to visit, yet the grand old Hotel Monteleone was last week packed to the rafters with anyone who's anyone in the global spirits and cocktail industries.
Early Saturday evenings is a seductive time in almost any city in the world, as people rush about gathering provisions and meeting friends; and so, after a recent Saturday opening at a SoHo gallery, I began walking slowly up Broadway to merge with the crowd and enjoy the sights and sounds and the glitter of colored lights reflected in the wet streets.
In the first part, Ianto (originating from the timeframe of Season Two) is approached by Rhys and Captain John, both post-Children of Earth, who warn Ianto not to believe the offer made by a seductive, time-travelling woman; they do not tell him that their mission is to preserve the timeline in which he dies.
But I suspect the work will only get more seductive as time passes.
Theatre's so seductive and time-consuming.
The film's scope, natural backdrops, massive sets, complex choreography and cinematography are seductive, at times stunning, and if you like watching swirling people and cameras, you may love it.
But I can't help feeling that Wesker's metaphor for the dehumanising impact of industrialised labour has been turned, with its seductive waltz-time music, into a celebration of synchronised movement.
Whether the show brings to mind St. Augustine, science fiction or Oscar Niemeyer, it's playing with daft, seductive ideas whose time may have come, again.
"Banewl," a 16-millimeter film, is a seductive meditation on time, light and nature that records last year's total eclipse of the sun from a seaside dairy farm in Cornwall in real time (63 minutes).
Will it be slow and seductive taking your time?
Some of her former colleagues described her as unpredictable, and a one-time friend, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said that Ms. Banon was at times seductive and good-tempered but at others, anxious and eager for revenge.
