Word: instinctiveness
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Since then there has been a marked change in Ronald Reagan's attitude. His gut instinct has always been to put as much pressure on the Soviet Union as possible, and in the past few months his confidence has grown that he can do this without incurring any major risk. According to the prevailing view among Reagan's advisers, the Soviets have the most to lose if they back out of the upcoming summit, so the U.S. has nothing to lose by acting assertive...
...best actor in Hollywood." White Heat contains a typical bit of Cagney , business, less a trick than a nuance. He had the killer Cody Jarrett sit, for just a second, in his mother's lap. It was a gesture worth pages of exposition, mined from the same instinct that made Cagney what he would never admit he was: a consummate actor...
When fighting breaks out, the first instinct of a good journalist is to get close to the action. But as TIME correspondents found in reporting this week's stories on the clashes in the Gulf of Sidra and Central America, the best seats are usually hard to come by. Says Middle East Correspondent John Borrell, who has covered numerous wars: "All too often you are either too far away or too close...
...begin to suspect that there is in us a voyeuristic craving, an instinct which tempts us to spectate rather than to read. "In other words, I never get away from myself." A twinge of uneasiness prompts us to ask, what are we reading here? This writing defies understanding, subverts the process of making meaning through any rubric...
...while Neustadt made it clear he felt Reagan is heading in the wrong direction on Nicaragua, the professor praised the president's "great political instinct on when you have to cut losses...