Word: instinctiveness
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...have changed rapidly in Britain. Large chunks of the old working class have advanced into the middle class. Union membership, the bedrock Labour constituency, has dropped from 53% in 1980 to 32% in 1994. Many voters who once cast their ballots for Labour on the basis of a tribal instinct to support their similarly situated comrades floated to the Conservatives in the 1980s. But like Clinton, who wooed back the Reagan Democrats, Blair is leading because he is recapturing those Labour voters who strayed to the Tories as their wallets thickened. It is hardly surprising, then, to hear Blair...
Vendler also speaks of the "patterning instinct" innate in human beings, which, she says, is ramified in many art forms--visual and musical as well as verbal. She comments that many mathematics students also take great pleasure in highly patterned musical forms, and that, when they turn to poetry, they often find it there as well, "Poetry is the most concise and highest form of verbal patterning that we do," she says...
...most unusual concept yet for a White House movie--one imagines, anyway--belongs to Sacred Cows, a notorious and as yet unproduced screenplay by Joe Eszterhas, who is most famous for writing Basic Instinct and Showgirls. Sacred Cows, which is being developed by MGM, tells the story of a President who is caught having a trans-species tryst in a barn. At various times, according to Eszterhas, Steven Spielberg, Milos Forman and Robert Zemeckis have all been attached to the film as directors. "It's a comedic but serious piece," Eszterhas says. "It ultimately makes the case that the President...
During his five-year tenure as host of his warm-vibe, late-night talk show, Arsenio Hall seemed like the sort of guy who had a natural instinct for what made him look good. One night he would fist-roll his way on stage in a sleek Armani suit, the next in Vegas sequins, another in a pair of chic ragtag overalls. These days, though, Arsenio appears to be taking few fashion risks. During a recent tuxedo fitting at Los Angeles' posh JonValdi clothier, the 40-year-old comic was accompanied by a personal stylist, Julie Mijares, who had dressed...
Smilla's Sense of Snow is more than a climatological instinct. It is the projection of a wintry soul over which a long, cold arctic night settled long...