Word: primally
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...laborious imitation of things that are easily done better elsewhere. Directors try for the intimacy of a movie close- up or the narrative voice of fiction or the pachydermal pizzazz of theme- park extravaganzas, and you think, Why did they bother? But when theater works on its own primal terms -- with a bare stage, a few actors in simple dress and a brilliant conception that breathes life into an old property -- it's the freshest, liveliest art around...
...appreciate the primal urge to descend from the stands in order to exact revenge on the victorious Elis. After all, they had the poor taste to win by almost twenty points in our own backyard...
Susan Smith knew what a kidnapper should look like. He should be a remorseless stranger with a gun. But the essential part of the picture -- the touch she must have counted on to arouse the primal sympathies of her neighbors and to cut short any doubts -- was his race. The suspect had to be a black man. Better still, a black man in a knit cap, a bit of hip-hop wardrobe that can be as menacing in some minds as a buccaneer's eye patch. Wasn't that everyone's most familiar image of the murderous criminal...
...supplies something that's been missing from TV for years. Medical dramas have long been out of fashion; the last successful one, St. Elsewhere, was less concerned with the nuts and bolts of medical care than with often baroque interpersonal drama and nuthouse comedy. ER has rediscovered the primal appeal of the doctor show, and a new generation of viewers is eagerly watching...
...across the country, on kitchen tables, in limos and other venues too scintillating to mention, other folks are having more sex, livelier sex, better sex? Maybe even that quiet couple right next door is having more fun in bed, and more often. Such thoughts spring, no doubt, from a primal anxiety deep within the human psyche. It has probably haunted men and women since the serpent pointed Eve toward the forbidden fruit and urged her to get with the program...