Word: instinctively
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Everything about Monica is disarming. On the tennis court, the intensity burns in her eyes like a tiger catching up to its prey. She whispers to herself in between points, urging herself to step up the killer instinct one more notch. And when Monica is playing her best tennis, it's smothering. She doesn't let you up for air. It's a demolition of the highest quality...
Although throughout the season the Crimson has had problems maintaining an early lead, it used its newfound killer instinct yesterday and refused to relinquish command...
Love, she once said, was "the bread of my life and pen," but so too were gender, instinct, the natural world, childhood, innocence, debauchery and the throwing off of convention, social as well as literary. When she was not writing, she was re-creating herself: taking three husbands and countless lovers, both male and female; exploring the Paris demimonde; even, strapped for cash, starting a beauty business at age 58. Such a life--one that has been copiously documented, by Colette and others--presents Judith Thurman, author of Secrets of the Flesh: A Life of Colette (Knopf; 592 pages...
Gore, who can seem phony even when he's totally sincere, has always tried to make up with hard work what he lacks in instinct and inspiration. Right now he's working so feverishly to connect that he makes you want to give him a hug. "I don't want to tell you what's on my mind," he says constantly. "I want to show you what's in my heart"--and you get the idea he'd like to rip the thing clean out of his breast, just to prove he has one. What's fascinating is that this...
...instinct," Barber agreed...