Word: instinctiveness
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...through little touches and shades of emphasis that Epstein works his interpretation into the grain of Beaumarchais' play. When Shalhoub presents Figaro's epiphanic monologue, he strides from seat-top to seat through the empty first rows of the auditorium, with all the precarious confidence of his social-climbing instinct--then hops down, nods furtively and scurries by the legs of the audience with some submissive mutters of "excuse me." The moment when the jealous Count gives Cherubino an army officer's commission to remove him from the scene--immortalized by Mozart in his mock-heroic, trumpet-and-drum aria...
...prospect of a great horizon. But in the day-to-day struggle for security, that horizon has remained largely unfocused. Political Scientist Hertzel Fishman, considering this, observes that Israel must now forge "a national character out of its many cultures, political backgrounds and ethnic origins. Israel has a basic instinct for survival. What the country needs is a sense of destiny." Defining that destiny cannot be accomplished on one election day. Nor can greatness for Israel ever be merely a matter of territory. One of the many visions of Israel is the idea, so important in the long centuries...
...budget-cutting David Stockman is often referred to as "the brilliant 34-year-old conservative," but as Russell Baker noted in a fine, wry column, "Whom the media would destroy they first make young and brilliant." This happens, Baker suggests, less from cunning than from an occupational instinct for building melodrama. Just wait, Baker predicts: an audience that is mostly neither young nor brilliant will be "easily amused at seeing whippersnappers get their comeuppance...
...there they were, lined up side by side on the Weeks Bridge in the March pre-dawn, staring into the Charles like derelicts trying to drown the pain of too many lonely nights. Elaine decided to jump first. She dived into the current, came bobbing up out of instinct, and waved to the four on the bridge. Her hair swirled around the Ophelia in denim as the eddies carried her out of sight...
...days, he raises a question about simplifying a point in his proposed tax-reduction plans. "I'm just thinking about the guy doing his return," Reagan explains. Meese says that the new tax rate tables will deal with the problem. Something else is rankling Reagan. His instinct is to cut the capital gains levy sooner rather than later. Says he: "This concern is doing us out of something far more stimulating [to the economy...