Word: instinctive
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...things like "miscellaneous income" and "all other expenses." Officials can break such categories down to their individual elements, but they can't carefully predict how these grab-bags will change each year--their miscellaneity precludes any overall guesses. More often than not, officials simply plug in figures based on instinct and past experience and watch with anxious eyes during the next year to see how accurate they were...
...essence of the horse, it appeared, when juxtaposed with the living mass of the animal, rather as its opposite, a caricature supplanting pliancy with rigor, fluency with brittleness, motion with stillness. What would have happened to the horse, Fabian wondered, if, throughout its life, instead of relying on its instinct, the animal had sought support only from its skeleton...
Still, Alda has an instinct for intelligent comic dialogue, a willingness to engage hard issues and a sure touch for creating characters of all ages and genders. Better a jerry-built movie about solid people than the reverse...
...Lulu's patron, husband and prime victim, Bass-Baritone William Dooley mordantly conveys the opera's central drama of worldly power and rationality being ravaged by the primal erotic instinct. Among other solid supporting performances, Bass-Baritone Andrew Foldi is funny and touching as Schigolch, the old man who may be Lulu's father and who is as good a key as any to Berg's newly retrieved third act. Schigolch is the none too comforting image of what is left after passion and violence are spent: a scrabbling, wheezy, lecherous rag bag of a survivor...
...Kennedy (who is resolutely undeclared but watching with interest), come with reputations shadowed by their pasts. California Governor Jerry Brown, with his sleek vocabularies of "planetary realism," sounds like an item from The Whole Earth Catalog. Brown possesses a disco Jesuit allure and what seems to be a gut instinct for the politics of the future, but has far to go before he persuades the nation he is anything but a welterweight opportunist. Ronald Reagan and Gerald Ford are ambassadors from the past. Other Republicans such as Howard Baker and George Bush suffer, like the President, from an absence...