Word: instinctiveness
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...guys are so lame and preening that there's little triumph in outsmarting them. The set piece in both films was blowing up an automobile: sexual revenge as car-nage. But that was not nearly so explosive as the smoulder of Sharon Stone's sexual menace in Basic Instinct. In elevating or degrading the '40s femme fatale to pansexual sociopath status, Stone showed that a gorgeous woman's predatory stare can be as piercing as an ice pick...
...century Americans no longer affects most of America. Our general lack of religion, and the sense of personal responsibility that religion breeds, calls into question the ability of the average American to act responsibly if given increased liberty. Like so many caged animals, we seem to have lost our instinct for personal liberty and have become dependent on our keeper's (read "the government's") handouts and laws...
...with ads in which he compared himself to Ralph Lauren and Calvin Klein. The industry laughed--here was a tyro pushing rip-off designs and affecting to be an immortal. But Hilfiger was dogged. He came to recognize the flair in black street style, recombined it with his preppie instinct and found a niche in fashion no one can laugh...
...Wednesday, as Morris was desperately scrambling to head off his collapse, the President was on his triumphant campaign train, bound for Chicago, with a double-digit polling lead. It was enough to have White House advisers like George Stephanopoulos and Harold Ickes--skeptics by instinct, liberals by choice, and Morris opponents for those reasons and more--indulging an uncharacteristic thought: landslide. Then Morris, with his weird ignorance of his psychic predicaments, rained on his own parade...
...easy to answer. Dick Morris, Clinton's premier political strategist, says the President has always had both a "left agenda" and a "right agenda," and pushes whichever seems realizable at the moment. A former aide describes a consistent instinct: "If you go to him and say, 'We must do A or B,' he'll say 'Can't we do A and B? Or something else...