Word: instincts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...thought about politics -- which must have been an advantage for a man who worked for so many courts, papal and royal. Despite the mythological framework he employed, he was practicing an early kind of art for art's sake, in which formal inflection and delicacy, combined with an exquisite instinct for the equilibrium of masses, reigned supreme...
THIS YEAR'S CANNES FILM FESTIVAL STARTED ON A steamy note with the screening of an uncut Basic Instinct. But lacking the luster of glamour fests past, Hollywood on the Mediterranean soon turned into a Basic Bore. Jurors opted for predictable choices. The Palme d'Or, the festival's highest honor, went to the Ingmar Bergman-scripted Best Intentions, an elegiac love story produced for Swedish television. Other top awards went to director Robert Altman for his wry Hollywood basher The Player and to actor Tim Robbins for his deft portrayal of an unctuous studio head in that film...
...basement. If you're above ground you must be another combatant, and you're fair game." How can one take pictures under those conditions? "You don't," says Morris simply. "You spend most of the time hiding in ditches and basements." He adds, though, that "you develop an instinct" for knowing when it is, well, not exactly safe but feasible, to come out and start shooting pictures. As his awards testify, the photos Chris then took capture the human suffering caused by war with heart-wrenching impact...
What? The Asian women models have to be at least 5'6"? How many Asian women are actually that tall, I wondered. Instinct told me that 5'6" was far from our median height. I conducted an unscientific investigation...
Demonstrations protesting the portrayal of homosexual women as man-hating murderers started when Basic Instinct began filming in San Francisco last year and resumed when the film opened. "Every lesbian and bisexual character in these films is accused of being a psychotic killer," says Kate Sorensen, a member of Queer Nation, which helped organize the protests. "And the girl never gets the girl. I'm tired of that." Gay activists across the country tried to dissuade moviegoers from seeing it by telling them who the killer is as they lined up for tickets...