Word: instinctiveness
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...great guys to waste time with. As he's proved with Quiz Show, the latter has a real flair for writing strong, confrontational scenes -- brisk, needling, well shaped -- and the former stages them with coolly concentrated intensity. And the cast is terrific. Douglas, with Fatal Attraction and Basic Instinct behind him, knows all about playing male victimization without total loss of amour propre. Moore's ferocity is totally unredeemed, therefore totally riveting. Donald Sutherland as their boss is computer-like: he has an almost-human brain and a silicon chip where his heart should be. They and a very good...
...reaction to other teams' goals has not been good," he says. "We tend to get really down rather than pumped up. We also don't seem to have that killer instinct that lets us blow the score of games wide open...
Although these men would be better served if they came to recognize a smart woman as something other than a threat to their manhood, an 18-year-old instinct will not be educated away with a Radcliffe Union of Students (RUS) visit to a proctor meeting. (Repeat after me: "I am a man, and it's okay that some women are smarter than I.") It's a shame that, in the name of social engineering, four years of these students' educational lives are severely disrupted...
...look at recent history confirms the Crimson's inexperience with victory: the last three Harvard squads have gone 6-20, 6-20, and 9-17. That's 21-57, for those of you keeping track at home. And that's not a record that creates the killer instinct possessed by championship ballclubs...
...alleged carjacking and kidnapping of her two sons, ages 3 years and 14 months, she forgot to include one thing in her story -- emotion ((Cover Stories, Nov. 14)). Smith did not appear to show the feelings one would display if one's children had really been taken. My first instinct was that she was not telling the truth, but I felt sorry for her and prayed that the boys, whom we thought were abducted, would be safely returned. I never imagined that a mother could be so cruel as to murder her own children. Problems at home with a spouse...