Word: instinctively
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Instinctive Chickens. One hint that REM sleep may help creatures master and retain new experiences came from research on chickens. Instinct-driven chicks do most of the learning essential to their existence during the first 24 hours of life. It is then that they become attached to one very special cozy object; normally this is a mother hen, but under laboratory conditions they will accept such surrogates as an old shoe or a ball and learn how to recognize them. According to Dr. Ramon
Sarah Clark is outstanding in her interpretation of the evil and tragic wife. This character develops brilliantly as the father's most terrible enemy and at the same time his closest, most longed after source of love. She is a woman driven by instinct rather than plan. Miss Clark is outstanding not in her portrayal of an absolute evil, but in her ability to refocus the attention of the audience through her weaknesses on the father as the prime source of his own downfall...
...sociologist tries to refute such a basic biological tenet as evolution and natural selection. For behavior patterns and their modification possibilities through learning are fixed in the genes of species, consequently modified but not eradicated in individual development. Just as ethologists are beginning to find that man has more instinct-caused behavior than we thought, Simon and Gagnon rush in the opposite direction with their absurd conclusions...
Despite its director's reputation, La Prisonnière is the kind of skin-flick that rarely makes it off the grind-house circuit. But this film is being released in the U.S. by Joseph E. Levine, a canny showman with a shrewd instinct for profitable exploitation. Five years ago, the only chained-up people in Levine movies were Mediterranean musclemen and Nubian slaves. From this standpoint at least, La Prisonnière marks a certain kind of progress...
Formerly a photographer for Réaltiés and Paris Match, Madame Demy has an unerring instinct for the stylishly avantgarde. She photographed Les Créatures as if it were a Vogue layout, and edited it elliptically. She even tinted the fantasy scenes to avoid confusion: red for those influenced by the mad engineer at his game board, a benign pink for the writer-hero. The trouble is that she seems to take the hero's fantasy as seriously as he does. As in her other films (Cleo from 5 to 7, Le Bonheur), she mistakes pulp...