Word: instincts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...complications set in during the '90s, when the boomers who were once pop culture's most dedicated consumers became the decision makers at media companies-but also the parents of the next generation. Pulled one way by their lifelong instinct for whatever is sensational, unsanitized or unofficial, they find themselves dragged in the other direction by their emerging second thoughts as citizens and parents...
Mira Nair's direction is superb. She has an exacting eye for detail, and an unerring instinct for what makes a film work. She exhibits an extraordinary control over the elements in the film, producing a work that is about exile, lost love, political repression, bygone dreams, and also about blossoming love, pleasure, warmth, and newfound hope...
...enthusiasts respond that guns don't kill, people do. This truism is too simple to be accurate, but it is interesting because it suggests that killing is a natural instinct for us, and guns are merely the mechanism of choice. Recent propaganda has gone so far as to sanctify handguns because they are less than one-third as likely as shotguns and rifles to cause fatalities...
Following Instinct...
Kluttz says he never called ahead to see if volunteers were needed. He just followed his instinct...