Word: instinctive
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Finally, it's time for Mankind--an ugly, animal-like wrestler, whose face hides behind a leather mask. Almost neolithic, he proves that instinct is more important than intelligence. During the fight with his former best friend Al Snow, Mankind is reluctant. At one point, when he's about to perform his most effective and deadly move--where he pulls a dirty sock puppet out of his pants and crams it down his victim's throat--Mankind hesitates. He decides against it, tucking Mr. Socko (the filthy stocking's official name) back down into his crotch. Like some stupid animal...
...level of politics, whether on campus, locally or nationally--the words our elected officials and candidates choose to use and the ways they choose to use them can reveal their natures, including the raw instinct for survival or their commitment to honest discourse. Elections are often about the energy displayed by the candidates, a sense of experience with decisions made under pressure and a perceived quality of inherent honesty. The vice president, whom I have often admired, knows this very well. It is not too late for him to embellish less, qualify less and declare more...
...friend Eskew took over his campaign strategy last summer, what was once a messy tangle of infighting advisers with conflicting philosophies, interests and agendas has become an operation with Zen-like focus, throwing Bradley off stride. More than anything else, aides say, Eskew has fostered Gore's instinct to go for the jugular. So quick is Gore to seize an opening that when Bradley groused last week that Iowa rewards "entrenched power," the Vice President was almost instantly on the phone to Eskew: "I want to talk about this today." From the stage of a school gym, Gore...
...feel would be expected of a Time Warner executive. In Case's world, the polite thing to do is get through the door and out of the way. In Levin's, it's to hold it for others. But the two men do seem to have the same basic instinct: Get through the door...
...hard to think rationally about Elian when your throat is swelled and your eyes wet. And it is that simple human affection for this innocent child that is the first emotion almost everyone feels about him. It's an instinct that what Elian needs most right now is to fill his big eyes with a vision of his father, a 31-year-old hotel security guard and Communist Party member who lives in Cardenas, a small town east of Havana. Juan Miguel hasn't cut his hair since Elian left, because it was their habit to make the trip...