Word: instinct
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Joffrey possesses a shrewd, show-bizzy instinct, not merely for what his dancers can manage but for what his audiences will swallow. So far he has avoided full-length ballets in the Russian tradition on the grounds that a Swan Lake or a Giselle would expose more of the company's faults than its virtues. Nonetheless, the question remains as to how long this promising fancy-free troupe can survive on nerve, verve and youthful fervor. When will it undertake major pieces that demand dramatic development rather than mere disciplined dazzle...
...certainly that the soul of Western man is dead to government in the grand manner of Pope and King? Are the above-mentioned events "merely coincidental"? Or do we have here a natural and historic joining of the instinct for self-preservation with the urge toward that grand manner...
...total ambience apparently stimulates the instinct to buy. George Stuart, who, with designer wife Lyn, operates the women's boutique, claims: "We've had to restock the shop four times a day every day so far." Other retailers are doing almost as well. For some customers, however, Manhattan's newest divertissement will never quite replace Rexalls or Walgreens. Because of a New York State law that prevents their sale in an establishment that serves alcohol, no drugs are available in Le Drugstore...
...most elaborate fourth-market enterprise, Manhattan's Institutional Networks Corp., or "Instinct," enables clients to trade stocks over a private network of teletype machines linked to a computer. A client can consult Instinct's "offer file" for any of 1,550 stocks by punching keys on his teletype, which prints out a list. If a buyer spots an offer he wants, he can instruct the computer to connect him with a potential seller to dicker over the terms. To preserve the coveted anonymity, both parties are identified only by coded numbers. A deal is closed when a trader...
...mistress. "It is a story unusually lit with affection and nature," says Schell. "I decided only one photographer could really do it-Sven Nykvist, the artist who does Bergman's films. When he agreed I knew the picture would happen, and that it would work." Schell's instinct has proved infallible. Nykvist has filled the film with indelible imagery. The sunlight is a featured player of humor and warmth. Interiors seem to exhale melancholy. Weightless figures hover on the horizon and are swallowed...