Word: instincts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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These days, there are enough African Americans on the air to make prime time more integrated than the average suburb, but the "colored on TV" instinct lingers on. It helps to explain why such a run-of-the-mill movie as Waiting to Exhale is a box-office hit. For many blacks, especially women, the film version of Terry McMillan's best-selling 1992 potboiler about lonely, frustrated black women and no-good men has become a catalyst for discussions about sisterhood and relations with the opposite sex. "It teaches you that you need to find peace within yourself...
Feaster's effort would go for naught as Harvard couldn't find the killer instinct it so desperately needed...
...perhaps more than anything else, Harvard lacks the confidence and killer instinct necessary to win closely contested ballgames...
Dispassion vs. passion, intellect vs. instinct, the implosive vs. the explosive style--as writer-director Michael Mann develops the duel between this cop and this robber in Heat, his film becomes a compassionate contemplation of the two most basic ways of being male and workaholic in modern America. It also becomes a critique of pure reason. For Neil is placing impossible demands on himself, on his associates, on a chance universe in which they inhabit one of the chancier corners. He can't prevent himself from falling in love (with Amy Brenneman's innocent bookstore clerk). He can't prevent...
...rumored--the sum of which would not be salacious enough to get her on Jenny Jones--was a bit of a bombshell coming from a member of the royal family. Yes, she knew her husband was making nasty with Camilla Parker Bowles in 1986, thanks to "woman's instinct" and "people who cared about our marriage." Yes, this worsened her bulimia and self-abuse. Yes, she hurt her own arms and legs. And yes, she had her own affair, with James Hewitt, her riding instructor. But no, she didn't make all those calls to a London art dealer...