Word: instinctiveness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...roll act starting out in the late 1950s, a group starring three sisters, slightly reminiscent of the Supremes. That is the notion behind Sparkle, a casually enjoyable excursion into the predictable heartbreak and unlikely triumphs of show biz. Sister (Lonette McKee) is the eldest, beautiful, with a fatal instinct for the wrong kind of man. Dolores (Dwan Smith) is vaguely uneasy about everything, whether it is performing or walking down the Harlem streets. Sparkle, the youngest (Irene Cara), is the most innocent, and perhaps the most talented. Under the tutelage of a good fellow named Stix (Philip M. Thomas...
This year's Derby may have the smallest field in 28 years (seven or eight) and probably will be a virtual match race between Honest Pleasure and Bold Forbes. It will surely be a track tactician's delight since neither animal, by breeding or instinct, is willing to be "rated." In rough translation, the term means that if you have to run a long way, you had better run some of it slowly, or you might never get there...
...novelist, Howar seems to have learned a lot from old movies and talk shows. Her basic technique is the flashback and her keenest instinct is for the spiky remark. "You political types are permitted to get caught with your hand in anything except another man's," Lilly tells two Government officials whose groping she has mischievously joined under the dinner table. Such dialogue befits TV Critic Lilly Shawcross, who is described as falling somewhere between Pauline Kael and Rex Reed. As a fictional character she inhabits a latitude equally indeterminate and unlikely - between Becky Sharp and Mary Tyler Moore...
...along with the verdict. Our instinct to survive is so strong that we can conceive of killing another human, even eating human flesh, but not becoming a rebel, robbing a bank and shooting at a store as means to survival...
Governor George Corley Wallace is an extremely gifted and intelligent man, blessed with impressive oratorical skills, memory and instinct, the irreplaceable tools of a master politician. For over a decade he has dominated Alabama as has no other man in its history. He inherited a state in desperate need of positive leadership; unfortunately, his influence has been largely negative...