Word: instinctiveness
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...Laurie MacDonald, a production boss for Steven Spielberg's DreamWorks, saw the film last year and quickly bought remake rights for $1 million?just a bit less than the original movie's budget. Her instinct proved sharp. The new Ring is the rare Hollywood horror movie that earned more money in its third weekend ($18 million) than its first ($15 million)?a testament to enthusiastic word of mouth. The film may generate its own sequel. Insiders are already whispering the sacred word "franchise...
Anyone who has read Pinker's earlier books--including How the Mind Works and The Language Instinct--will rightly guess that his latest effort is similarly sweeping, erudite, sharply argued, richly footnoted and fun to read. It's also highly persuasive. The view that environment is paramount began, he says, with the philosophers of the Enlightenment: John Locke, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Rene Descartes and John Stuart Mill. And it was reinforced in the 1950s by Harvard psychologist B.F. Skinner, who said that all human behavior was simply a set of conditioned responses...
Knowing when to use and not use the new forensic tools is an instinct best bred in the labs themselves, but the quality of those facilities varies widely. There is no national standard for training required to become a forensic investigator, nor any uniform accreditation procedure for labs. About two-thirds of U.S. forensic labs subscribe to an accreditation system, but it's only voluntary. "When you get a haircut," says Fischer, "even your barber is licensed...
...many of your films? Kiarostami: I remember my own childhood very clearly and can conjure it up very easily. I love the child's perspective and attitude - that mix of innocence and opportunism. Children have more capacity for living and are more powerful than adults in terms of their instinct for survival...
...first, poetic sense, is an instinct particular to poets, a potential for expression, what Maritain called “an inner melody...