Word: gutting
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...whales that brought white men to these remote climes. And, completing the scene, forming its outer perimeter, nine other whaling vessels swung at anchor in the eerily calm waters of this 37°F cloudless Arctic morning. A day earlier, the winds that often slice through this storied, icy gut dividing North America and Asia had roiled those waters; swells had blown the Brunswick-the now-listing ship from New Bedford, Massachusetts-against one of the ice floes. During the summer, these chunks of ice drift northward from the Pacific to the Arctic through this fifty-mile-wide passage between...
...special effects, no $20 million stars. Yet documentaries have become part of the summer-movie landscape, thanks to the robust business done by Fahrenheit 9/11 in 2004 and March of the Penguins last year. Docs can hit audiences where all the best movies do: in the heart, in the gut. Here are five of this summer's essays in political outrage and personal triumph...
...provided a little epic of the African diaspora in France. In his last moments of life, a wounded man from Lagos is tended by a sympathetic paramedic, also African. Flashbacks paint a tragic few years in a few moments: a job lost, a guitar stolen, a knife in the gut, all given meaning by one sweet brief encounter in a parking garage...
...medical bills, we empathize with the desperation that drives men to compromise their values. “Kekexili” evokes such a whirlwind of feelings, it’s difficult to tell where anyone’s loyalties lie at the end. Chuan Lu paints this gut-wrenching ambiguity in swaths across the entirety of his film, driving it home like a stake through the heart. Pity is perhaps the most lasting emotion “Kekexili” imprints upon the viewer: Pity for the women and children who cry as their men depart for the mountains, pity...
...diagnosis will invariably be challenged. We have to be as sure as possible that we aren't missing a true physical (the medical word is "organic") problem. I find the patient's medical history is most likely to turn up the valuable clue, but there's also the "gut check". We all love this mysterious genius that springs up in us once in a while; it's the thing that tells us little Johnnie is getting sick, Mary seems pregnant or Billy is lying. Alternative medicine practitioners claim they use these indescribable diagnostic methods a lot. M.D.'s use "gut...