Word: instinctive
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...Image and Other Stories offers 22 reassuring proofs of the laureate's continuing vitality. "The instinct to create remains as long as one breathes," says an obscure Yiddish poet in one of these tales, and he obviously speaks for his author as well as for all the compulsive monologists who continue to pop up in and then dominate Singer's short stories. "Now listen," commands Aunt Yentl, who is overheard telling three different anecdotes, and only the dull or the terminally uninterested could possibly disobey...
That background supported the instinct of more and more observers last week that Mengele might have found refuge in Brazil between 1961 and 1979. Even some of the most skeptical of Nazi hunters were beginning to entertain the possibility that the exhumed body might be Mengele's. Wiesenthal, who had initially said there was a 99% chance that the affair was a hoax, had lowered his estimate to 40%. "The testimony of witnesses," said the confident Tuma, "gives certainty to the fact that we are dealing with the body of Josef Mengele...
Sylvester Stallone has a shrewd mythmaker's instinct for that kind of metamorphosis. Stallone's formative influence was the Hercules movies of Steve Reeves, whose physique he energetically and wistfully labored to replicate. Stallone eventually took his splendidly muscled creation over into fiction. He became Rocky, the Philadelphia loser who beats up the heavyweight champion of the world. Now Stallone's pectorals and deltoids are in service again as Rambo. The name sounds like a good ole boy's rendering of Rimbaud. Rambo is a veteran who single-handed accomplishes what the U.S. Army and Marines never could...
...work brilliantly embodied the crisis of belief in finesse and cultural hierarchies that hit postwar French intellectual life. He had an unerring instinct for farce. Picasso had painted bulls, but for decades few advanced artists had painted a cow, and when Dubuffet did so it seemed to set itself against a whole tradition of animal as heroic metaphor. And for those who (understandably) yearned for a return to the French pictorial tradition of luxe, calme et volupte, the sight of Dubuffet's monstrous kippered nudes squashed flat in their beds of pigment was not only an affront, it was like...
They had done a lot, too. Whalen said that while trying to get a badly stabbed man into an ambulance, he had accidentally stuck his hand into the victim's intestines. Walking through the dark with nothing but flashlights and instinct, the two cops had stalked a suspect who was toting a submachine...