Word: instinctive
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...many years the evidence of such motherly love applied only to peaceful, plant-eating dinosaurs. Now a dramatic discovery announced in the current Science suggests that the carnivores had a nesting instinct as well. Working with a U.S.-Mongolian team in the remote Gobi Desert, paleontologist Mark Norell of New York City's American Museum of Natural History found the nearly complete skeleton of a predatory-dinosaur embryo, the first ever discovered, fossilized just as it was about to hatch during the Cretaceous period, more than 70 million years ago. The embryo and its potato-size egg, found...
...milligrams, push. Sixty over one hour. Let's get another EKG. Keep him on the monitor ..."). The show's hopped-up pace and jumbled texture -- stories start, stop and overlap seemingly at random -- set it apart from almost anything else on the air. "There's a rhythmic instinct to slow down in television," says Crichton. "But our show had to go as fast as the real thing. We got rid of the pauses, those actors' moments, the hanging looks that mean nothing. Medical shows have been at the Marcus Welby pace: meet a patient, portray the disease of the week...
...think anymore, 'I gotta score, I gotta score,'" Silva said. "Now it's stuff like thinking about playing good defense, and I guess the goals have come when instinct takes over...
Nobody has to advise Cheech to create his own moral universe. His instinct for truth and falsehood has been honed by his profession, and his hot-wired street smarts make him far more acute on the subject of human behavior than any playwright. Slumped in a back row of the theater, keeping an eye on Olive, he is bored and offended by the pretentious twaddle emanating from the stage. Beginning with a few suggestions for line changes, Cheech is soon proposing structural alterations, then secretly joining David in a pool hall to rewrite the play. Among the young playwright...
...Nemeth, who giggle and banter even more shamelessly than E.T.'s anchors, and the show seems to work harder to hype even less. For a two-part interview with Sharon Stone, Extra devoted more time to teasing the story (countless shots of the infamous leg-crossing scene from Basic Instinct) than to Stone's perky but paltry "revelations." The show has closely copied E.T.'s format, but it can't match the original for sheer doggedness. In its coverage of the Emmy awards, Extra followed around one nominee, NYPD Blue's Nicholas Turturro, on the day of the awards ceremony...