Word: primal
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...risks have to be serious ones. Marvin Zuckerman, psychologist and professor emeritus at the University of Delaware, says risk-taking can mean seeking sensory experiences through food or travel or the more primal thrills of sex--as may be the case with Eliot Spitzer. The problem is, he says, that "high-sensation seekers tend to underestimate the risk...
...seen snow. The Malaysian delegate that Wei hosted last year was ecstatic about the fluffy flakes that many Harvard students so bemoan. “We took her outside and made snow angels,” says Wei. The students shared traditions unique to Harvard, as well. After explaining primal scream to a Japanese delegate, Wei inspired him to take the custom back to his own campus. The University of Tokyo will never be the same. THE FUTUREHCAP’s bottom line, besides learning about another culture (a.k.a. partying), is that the mutual experiences last beyond just a week...
...stains the C.V.s of some fairly honorable movie people. The director is Gregory Hoblit, who helped dream up the distinctive visual styles of the TV shows Hill Street Blues, L.A. Law and NYPD Blue, and directed the not-bad crazy-killer thriller Primal Fear (which introduced Edward Norton to film audiences). Two of the writers, Robert Fyvolent and Mark R. Brinker, are first-timers, but the rewrite man (or in this case woman), Allison Burnett, scripted last year's saucy, amiable Robert Benton movie Feast of Love. I know a buck is a buck, if not nearly a Euro...
David Reid, of the innovative ceramics studio KleinReid, agrees. "There is really a kind of primal response," he says. KleinReid's porcelain campfire set was originally envisioned as a centerpiece but is now often found in nonworking fireplaces. It evokes, he says, "a sense of memory." And who doesn't want a home filled with memories...
...anyone who has been under love's spell, these theories seem preposterous, and so they are. Nothing so primal could have been created out of thin air as a mere custom or product. To the contrary, romantic love is a human universal. In 1896 a Kwakiutl Indian in southern Alaska wrote the lament "Fire runs through my body--the pain of loving you," which could be the title of a bad power ballad today. Similar outpourings of passion can be found all over the world from those with broken hearts...