Word: guts
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...possibility of real meaning. What is perhaps most unfortunate about this dilemma is that it has recently led some artists, architects and even critics to stop talking about meaning all together. When you stop talking about meaning, you are left with only your visceral experience of a work, your gut reaction to it. And at this point criticism becomes nothing more than a dangerously arbitrary game of personal taste: whatever you like, whatever you think is cool...
...Jurors will love to have the manslaughter option,” Galenter said. “These types of cases are gut-wrenching for jurors, because you have two young people who are going to lose their lives: one is breathing but is going to be in a cage for a substantial period of time, and the other is dead,” Galenter said...
PROVIDENCE, R.I.—It was gut-check time for the Harvard football team...
Even under optimal conditions, gathering data by flying into hurricanes is never fun. Yet these gut-wrenching passes are extremely valuable. For with each one, Paul Chang, a NOAA researcher who works on remote sensing technology, amasses more information about how his instruments operate, and that information, he says, will allow him to calibrate similar instruments mounted on satellites. Someday he and his colleagues may be able to monitor the dynamic surface wind field in the vicinity of a hurricane at a comfortable remove...
After a week of gut-wound assaults on his character, Kerry finally fired back on Thursday night, assailing Bush and Cheney for having avoided service in Vietnam and for having "misled" us into Iraq. The latter may be an exaggeration, but after the G.O.P. assault, Kerry has a right to exaggerate with impunity. Indeed, if he hopes to win, Kerry will have to do much more of that. He will have to become a version of the young John Kerry not celebrated at the Democratic Convention--the eloquent, passionate, uncoached leader of Vietnam Veterans Against the War who caused...