Word: guts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Many gut-hunters were discouraged by the lengthy assignments. But the clincher came with Hoberman's answer to the question about course requirements: there will certainly be a final and a 20-page paper--"this is a course course." That sure sent most of them scurrying...
...this day, the gut issues are discussed. Woody Jenkins of Louisiana reminds the audience of the four great American protections: "the soap box, the ballot box, the jury box and the cartridge box. If you ever lose the cartridge box, the other three won't mean a thing." He recalls that the Japanese decided not to invade the West Coast in World War II because they knew the futility of doing battle with an armed citizenry...
...into a hardware store to buy a Thermos bottle. The white clerk asked my dad, a distinguished professor of surgery at least 20 years his senior, "What you want, boy?" My father struggled to maintain his dignity as he told the clerk what he wanted. I felt in my gut, for the first time, how hard it had been for black men to preserve their self-respect under a rigid system of white supremacy...
...candidates' basic positions on what probably will be the gut issues of the great debates...
...Earth. He becomes sucked in by his desire to love this bionic apparition, neutrinos or no. Stanley Kubrick may have meant to convey this same space-subconscious analogy in 2001: A Space Odyssey, but he abstracted too much, and became boring. Tarkovsky doesn't; he clutches us in the gut with emotional ambiguities, and he is not using scare tactics. Hari, the returned wife, kills herself again, but Kelvin knows she is immortal and waits for her to come back to life. Wild convulsions announce her reanimation, and the picture of a woman helplessly wretching, jerking about plays...