Word: guts
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...baseman who didn't hit for power. The fact that I was a well-below-average runner didn't help." Pitching coach Dave LaRoche did make it to the Show, compiling a 65-58 record in a career that lasted 14 seasons. Yet the minors attract him on a gut level. "If I wasn't in baseball," LaRoche says, "I would live in a town with a minor league team so my kids could go all the time...
...retransmission rights to the network's programming. "CBS could have gotten a cable channel for almost nothing," says the TV-industry executive. "They would just have to have invested some start-up money. But to Tisch it didn't mean anything because he doesn't feel it in his gut, like a Murdoch or a Diller does. He walked away from every deal he was presented! He has no vision about what the mass-media business is going to be, no feeling for where the future...
...feel things are beginning to move. I have a gut instinct about it," says Shizue Tanaka, whose family runs Tanakatei, an upscale restaurant in Tokyo's posh Akasaka area. Tanaka's sentiments are now shared by most influential businessmen: a quarterly survey by the Bank of Japan, which tracks the mood in boardrooms, recently reported the first upturn in business optimism in five years. "The possibility is strong that the economy has moved one step toward recovery," says Bank of Japan governor Yasushi Mieno. "But we must carefully watch the sustainability and tempo of the upturn...
Then BLAM!, the Wild Bunch hit town. On the festival's final Saturday, John Travolta, Bruce Willis, Samuel L. Jackson, Uma Thurman and other performers from the American thriller Pulp Fiction brought some big-time, macho-and- mayhem, Uzi-in-your-gut star quality to Cannes. Quentin Tarantino, who made the sanguinary Reservoir Dogs, wrote the script and directed the film at a hurtling pace, displaying a steely assurance in his storytelling and a gift for placing scary violence at unexpected moments. When the film was shown, it was as if Tarantino were telling Cannes, "O.K., nap time is over...
...hope. After the long, bumpy and very public selection process last year that ended with the appointment of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, he told a roomful of his aides, "That just goes to show that if you give me enough time to make me feel great down here," -- holding his gut -- "it will work out." Breyer, who probably didn't feel too great the last time the President chose a court nominee his way, surely feels much better this time...