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...Intimate History of Killing, Joanna Bourke asserts that when ordinary men and women are freed from conventional social constraints, they find intense pleasure in the act of killing and that the structure of war allows for primal joy and even erotic satisfaction in intimate combat. Although Bourke writes lucidly and engagingly and argues with evident conviction, she comes up short on the evidence that would be necessary to support her daring claims...
...couple of months of following your team to God-forsaken regions of the country, shaving your GPA in the process, creates an almost primal urge to yell when that third period goal hits the back...
...someone has finally made a knowing, attentive and, why not, explicit movie about what people do in bed. But Romance cannot live up, or down, to its fevered billing. It's a slow, morose little film about Marie (Caroline Ducey), who teaches school by day and at night gets primal lessons in sex, rough or tender. Bored with her beau, who declines intercourse, she has a tryst with hunky Paolo (Italian porn star Rocco Siffredi). But her real soul mate is the headmaster of her school (Francois Berleand), who binds and gags her while spouting aphorisms like "Physical love...
...sure was a three-day blow, replete with huffing and puffing and plenty of buffeting, lots of hot air and even some gloom and doom. There was nowhere to hide from its primal force; nothing to do but gawk, and murmur in hushed tones, and wait for it all to be over...
...When Floyd began to let up, why didn?t the microphone men? Didn?t anyone feel silly screaming through a drizzle, hyping the "anticipation" or the "aftermath" when the event itself was all denouement? Apparently not. The flogging of Floyd appealed to primal instincts, the craving of an over-technologized populace for something uncontrollable and unpredictable. Floyd may have pulled a Michigan J. Frog, croaking when it was supposed to sing and dance, but there was always the lure of the might-still, the carnage yet to be. And until Friday, when the word "fizzled" finally appeared in headlines...