Word: instincts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...addressing the camera as he walks through the streets of Manhattan on his way to see Charlie. This narrative device pops up sporadically in an effort to connect the sloppy narrative strands. The script was originally written by Joe Esterzhas (purveyor of such cinematic fool's gold as Basic Instinct and the infamous Showgirls), and it shows in some places (an especially acrobatic sex scene, for instance...
...timers like me, that smacked exactly of the bottom in '87, when companies took advantage of the madness to buy stock incredibly cheap. Sure enough, by 9:40, even as the market was "looking" down 200, Pepsi was up. We traders, herd animals by instinct, take heart when we see a big capper like Pepsi rallying, and we pull our sell orders. Boom, there goes the supply, and nothing begets demand like no supply...
When QUENTIN TARANTINO spotted Natural Born Killers producer Don Murphy at L.A.'s eaterie Ago, he didn't send over an air kiss. Instead, fuming about being badmouthed by Murphy, and by his partner in her book, Killer Instinct, the director went over and punched him repeatedly. Tarantino was put in a cop car, while Miramax head Harvey Weinstein helped broker a truce. No charges were filed, but Murphy is considering legal action...
...pain of murder as anyone after his young son was killed, has become an outspoken opponent of the death penalty. "As human beings, your very first impulse dictates revenge," Chery told the Boston Globe this past weekend. "But as reasonable beings, it becomes a question of repressing that first instinct, using your values, using your faith, to know that the best way of revenge for the taking of one life is not to take another...
...turns out that your first instinct was correct. All is not lost. When a system freezes or crashes altogether, both PCs and Macintoshes have mechanisms by which you can recover most, if not all, of your data...