Word: guts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...happen to trip out to Central Square meanwhile, check out Survive, for some gut-dropping suspense; or to Boston, see Fassbinder's Ali: Fear Eats the Soul, for more artsy poignancy. Then there's the Russian scifi film Solaris. A friend told me this movie has "a lot of connotations; I didn't even like it until afterwards, when I spent all night with friends making all the connections." One of those. I guess I'll have to go investigate those connotations for myself and get back...
Despite the large number of problem children, there are no psychologists on the school's staff, because Hyde teachers prefer to "use our gut feelings." When that approach fails, Gauld has referred students to Richard Evans, a psychiatrist in Brunswick, Me. Like many parents of Hyde students, Evans is willing to give the school the benefit of the doubt. Says he: "Frankly, I'm puzzled. But ordinary methods don't work with the kinds of kids going to Hyde. The school does make a real effort to reach these children. It is doing something no one else...
...Ford adviser concedes, "some of us would hold our breath for the whole campaign, fearing that some new evidence might come out about the milk scandal. It may be contrary to the system of justice, since he was acquitted, but there are still a lot of folks with a gut feeling that John Connally was guilty...
...success in resisting political pigeonholing. Allied Chemical Chairman (and former Commerce Secretary) John Connor, an early Carterite, finds the Georgian "somewhat on the liberal side. I think we need a liberal President to work with the Democratic Congress." Says Bell & Howell Chairman Donald Frey, a Republican: "I have a gut feeling that Carter is fundamentally conservative...
...This is the talent overlooked by all those who have resented Kael all along for dictating opinions. They miss the point entirely: we don't learn what to think about films from Kael, we learn how to think about them (and not in academic explication, but in terms of gut reaction). She shows us how to take a reaction like "yeah, it was o.k., but not spectacular" and run with...