Word: gutting
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...don’t know how to clean and gut a fish anyway so it’s just as well, I think, although I’ve wasted the remaining light sticking rusty hooks through not-pinned-into-place worms and now face the prospect of starting a fire in the dark, unless I can get the kerosene lamp started. (Booker had given me a demonstration about how to use it. “You see? Vis and you pull vis and turn vis. Eezy. Got it?” I didn?...
...later; the picture doesn't. Seeing your stories cut or killed, as Dayton knows after 18 years in journalism, is part of the job. "It's a solid story," she says. "But when they're putting a paper together at such high pressure, people make decisions based on gut instinct." Of course, sometimes the decision is simple. At around 8 p.m., as copy is bombarding the backbench - including the free trade story, which will be the splash - Whittaker's told a young girl has been set on fire in a Sydney park. The only reporter on deck in the Sydney...
...this time of Fundamentalist Christians--as it watched Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ. Both movies were appealing to what might be called their cultural bases. They weren't designed to persuade. They were designed to rally the faithful, to use the power of imagery to evoke gut sentiment, to rouse the already committed to various forms of hatred or adoration...
...understand it’s not a simple sell because people’s gut reaction is ‘I don’t want to pay any more money,’” Anello said in late April...
...Bush’s falling numbers, Kerry is having trouble picking up the support of those recently disenchanted with the president. Bush’s special brand of down-home charisma and charm must be part of the reason, and it will be difficult for Kerry to battle a gut feeling most Americans have about the president, whom many voters continue to deem decisive and trustworthy. But Bush’s excellent campaign staff—including spin maestro Karl Rove and the likable Texas twang of Karen Hughes—is another big Bush asset. The president?...