Word: instinctiveness
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...thought about politics -- which must have been an advantage for a man who worked for so many courts, papal and royal. Despite the mythological framework he employed, he was practicing an early kind of art for art's sake, in which formal inflection and delicacy, combined with an exquisite instinct for the equilibrium of masses, reigned supreme...
...beneficiaries of his intervention was Benigno Aquino, the outgoing President's late husband, who spent 7 1/2 years in Marcos jails. "The good guys are behind him," said Aquino of Ramos shortly before Aquino's 1983 airport assassination. "But I don't think Ramos will prevail. He has no instinct for infighting...
THIS YEAR'S CANNES FILM FESTIVAL STARTED ON A steamy note with the screening of an uncut Basic Instinct. But lacking the luster of glamour fests past, Hollywood on the Mediterranean soon turned into a Basic Bore. Jurors opted for predictable choices. The Palme d'Or, the festival's highest honor, went to the Ingmar Bergman-scripted Best Intentions, an elegiac love story produced for Swedish television. Other top awards went to director Robert Altman for his wry Hollywood basher The Player and to actor Tim Robbins for his deft portrayal of an unctuous studio head in that film...
...basement. If you're above ground you must be another combatant, and you're fair game." How can one take pictures under those conditions? "You don't," says Morris simply. "You spend most of the time hiding in ditches and basements." He adds, though, that "you develop an instinct" for knowing when it is, well, not exactly safe but feasible, to come out and start shooting pictures. As his awards testify, the photos Chris then took capture the human suffering caused by war with heart-wrenching impact...
What? The Asian women models have to be at least 5'6"? How many Asian women are actually that tall, I wondered. Instinct told me that 5'6" was far from our median height. I conducted an unscientific investigation...