Word: instinctiveness
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...instinct was sound. "I study the big-box-office movies in the last 30 years," says De Laurentiis in an English fractured by enthusiasm. "Nearly all are family movies. I see Kong as the greatest love story ever made, a picture for everyone." The trouble was, when Dino fell in love with Kong, almost everyone he went to for financing told him he was crazy, that the only interest in Kong was purely nostalgic and that $10 million-his first, modest budget estimate-was too much to risk on that quasi-emotion...
...doubtless the appeal to his gaming instinct that caused him to enter into negotiations with RKO for rights to remake the original while rounding up a portion of his financing. Then in June 1975 Universal released Jaws. It was a picture about a giant creature, and it started producers -notably Universal-thinking about other big-animal properties, like Kong. Universal also entered into negotiations with RKO and thought they had a deal when the sale to Dino was suddenly announced. Hurt feelings-and lawsuits-ensued. Both sides advertised start-shooting dates of Jan. 15 of this year, thinking to scare...
...Ford was besieged on every side, Carter's camp worked overtime to take advantage of the situation. Nobody has ever accused Carter of lacking an instinct for the jugular, and he displayed it clearly throughout the week. For the first time since Labor Day, the Democratic candidate was scoring points with the voters, as he crisscrossed the country and hit hard at Ford at every stop. In his attacks, Carter was so aggressive that it was possible he would provoke a sympathetic backlash for Ford?if the allegations about him were shown to be untrue or grossly overblown...
Celine composed Mea Culpa after touring Russia in 1936. The tract castigates the government that had invited him; it is a frenzied denunciation of the Soviet system's accomplishments, goals and aspirations. He appends a peculiarly personal tag to an ostensibly social message, but then, Celine typically let instinct hold sway over his world-view. He scorned dispassionate philosophy. Instinct tends to be an irrational, solipsistic faculty, and Celine's surrender to it poisoned his literary reputation...
NEITHER CELINE'S fiction, nor his political rhetoric is informed by logic. They are both swept along by passion and instinct, by a kind of blindly nihilistic faith. McCarthy suggests that his antisemitism is coupled with an affinity for the Jew and explains this ambivalence in pseudo-religious terms...