Word: instinctiveness
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Mayor Archer's position on the issue is no clearer than a Guyton painting. His first instinct is to force Guyton to remove his artwork from the city-owned property. In 1991 the mayor's predecessor, Coleman Young, bulldozed a couple of abandoned houses that Guyton had decorated. But Archer's handlers have counseled otherwise, pointing out that the Heidelberg Project has become the area's most popular destination point and that its creator is a headstrong folk hero who would only benefit from a confrontation with city hall. As a result, Archer has gone so far as to quietly...
Stallone has long been underestimated because of his thick speech and droopy demeanor. But his Cop Land colleagues speak of him with fond admiration. "Sly's a smart guy," Mangold attests. "He has a strong script instinct about how to hit the important beats of the scene." Stallone also knew how the film could help him. "Sly wanted to be with other real actors and feel alive in a dramatic scene," Mangold says. "I think this was not so much a career move for Sly as a personal decision to want to feel the joy of making a film...
...agents three times in three years, partly because he thought he was losing out on meaty roles. "At Creative Artists Agency I was the action specialist; maybe I was also a bit lax and just became a gun for hire. Meanwhile Michael Douglas was getting these incredible parts: Basic Instinct, Falling Down. When I saw Al Pacino do Scent of a Woman--I would've killed for a role like that. The Usual Suspects? I would have been there in a second. People don't think of me in those terms. Maybe after this, they will...
...keeping with the age-old idea of America as the New World (we are hoary with youth), Stewart was, in the roles that most gripped the public, a kind of child-man, a Harry Langdon with sex appeal. Even the sexiness brought out a mothering instinct in women. He was their poet, who had to be protected from insensitive brutes...
...witty manifesto, Herz correlates each major genre of electronic game with an age-old impulse: shoot-'em-ups like Doom tap the primal instinct for survival, while puzzle games like Tetris satisfy the need for order, control and reason. The games' larger-than-life superheroes are interpreted as contemporary reincarnations of mythological figures like Zeus and Prometheus...