Word: primally
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...that Lynch couldn't get a distributor. "He has a great, twisted psyche that always gets some sort of primal response from people," says Eamonn Bowles, president of Magnolia Pictures, an indie company that "had some interest" in distributing Empire but never made the deal. It's that the do-it-yourself ethic that attracted Lynch to the Sony PD150 seemed suited to an experiment in distribution as well. Self-distribution is "very brave," says Dern. "But it doesn't make it easier. Nothing about this is traditional...
Reality in contemporary literature often implies detachment and cynicism. And sex? Authors either detail awkward experiences that leave you cringing or give intellectualized versions of the primal thrusting found in Danielle Steel novels...
...brought a reporter's notebook to the memorial service for R.W. Apple of the New York Times this morning at the Kennedy Center, here in Washington. It was a primal act, a totemic offering - like my son bringing his glove to the ballpark when we go to see the Mets, I brought my notebook to celebrate Johnny, the most voracious of reporters. I even took a few notes...
DIED. William Diehl, 81, late-starting novelist who penned popular, mayhem-ridden novels including Sharky's Machine and Primal Fear; in Atlanta. A decorated World War II veteran, he got a job as an obituary writer at the Atlanta Constitution after the war, then became a reporter and freelance photographer. His move into fiction was inspired in part by boredom--he began writing Sharky's Machine, his first novel, at age 50, while serving as a juror. His fast-paced thrillers translated easily to film--Burt Reynolds played the title character in the 1981 adaptation of Sharky's Machine...
...note with Mark Morris’s “Polka.” The dancers execute Morris’s visually exciting choreography with enthusiasm, and the image that Keller and Kenney leave us with—one of all the performers united in a circle, evoking a primal sense of community in their movements—elegantly describes the unity of the show they have bound together thematically...