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Word: instincts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...exactly the instinct...I'm an academic. I don't do this," he says. "The first person who convinced me to do this said, 'You're the one who's written all the these articles. You have a personal responsibility...

Author: By Elizabeth T. Bangs, | Title: Professors Find Testifying Is a Trying Experience | 12/4/1995 | See Source »

Neil McCauley (Robert de Niro) is an orderly and calculating bank robber. Vincent Hanna (Al Pacino) is a disorderly and incautious Los Angeles cop on McCauley's trail. "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," says TIME's Richard Schickel. With what may be the best armored-car robbery ever placed on film, Schickel notes Mann is seeking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MOVIES . . . HEAT | 12/1/1995 | See Source »

...instinct that I wasn't self confident enough to throw myself into a situation which I perceived to be more impersonal," he says...

Author: By Curtis R. Chong, | Title: Professor Finds Beauty In Violins and Viruses | 11/22/1995 | See Source »

...have never in my life seen him so torn up about something," admits Powell's son Michael. "You have to remember, this is a soldier. This is a warrior, who does not like walking away from a fight. It's not fear; it's not self-doubt. Every instinct in his bones says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GENERAL LETDOWN | 11/20/1995 | See Source »

...David Paymer and Samantha Mathis--nice jobs, all) and the isolation of the President. You understand why the ultimate lonely guy might make a late-night call to Annette Bening, or Ben Wattenberg. Bening emits too many anguished giggles but is ultimately winning. And Douglas, with his instinct for touchy material that pays off, sells his big speech--a ringing defense of the environment and the A.C.L.U.--so persuasively it might even play in Limbaugh Land...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: WHERE NICE GUYS FINISH FIRST | 11/20/1995 | See Source »

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