Word: instinctiveness
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Jugular. Dole is fiercely ambitious and aggressive. His instinct for the jugular and the groin is well matched by his top aide and "communications director," Franklyn ("Lyn") Nofziger, a former Ronald Reagan secretary who is currently on loan from the White House. Should Dole miss a target, Nofziger, also the "editorial overseer" of the party newsletter Monday, is there to pot it. Together they have breathed new life into the party apparatus...
...took two years for him to teach elephant and tiger to cooperate. He had them sleep close together. Later, he took them for walks. Even now, the elephant wears thick padding on his neck during the stunt: Gebel-Williams has been unable to squelch the tiger's instinct to gnaw a hole into the neck of his "victim...
...spurred the Government Department to impose a 150-page limit on the length of senior theses. But it was good enough to be graded summa -a rare thing in those days-and contained some fruitful insights into Kissinger's mind. In a section devoted to Spengler, he wrote that "Instinct is no guide to political conduct. Effective leadership is always forced-whatever its motives-to represent itself as the carrier of ideas, embodying purposes. All truly great achievements in history resulted from the actualization of principles, not from the clever evaluation of political conditions...
...Bloom's occultivated consists of stares loaded with blanks. Attenborough is an echo of the project: empty smugness, satisfaction without self. Only Ian Holm, as the passive hero, seems to grasp the thematic apperception: modern man and his society are in a schizoid clash where and brain, instinct and intellect, struggle for primacy. He alone defines ambiguity in the loftiest sense. Clement & Co. founder in the lowest...
...perfect. But he stayed around anyway, working with the other actors." Richard Lester, who directed Scott in Petulia, found him "intelligent, constructive, decent, professional. If there was a difference of opinion between us, we worked it out in five or ten minutes." Enormously sure of his own instinct for material, Scott was handed the manuscript of Plaza Suite in a restaurant by Playwright Neil Simon; he left to read it and returned little more than an hour later to say he would act in it. During the filming of Scott's TV series, East Side/West Side, Jim Aubrey, then president...