Word: instinctive
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...finally proven that he's not all hard shots," Berry said, referring to Cardi's touch volleys. "Arkie is starting to get back the animal instinct of winning again...
Current American law generally gives control over most kinds of property to its owner -- an auto manufacturer, for instance, cannot tell buyers what to do with their cars. Yet every instinct says that art is no ordinary property. The proposals before Congress place it in a separate category by turning to "moral rights," a legal concept dating back to the French Revolution. It permits artists to block the public display of their work in a defaced or modified form. Moral rights are also embodied in the Berne Convention, the international copyright agreement adopted by 76 countries, but the provision...
...fashion, patiently putting one incident after another, savoring the landscape, the history and the lore. As well as any travel writer of the 19th and 20th centuries, Thesiger conveys the explorers' bond of shared solitude. He shows human nature in its crucible, including the elements of savagery and the instinct for hospitality, which flourishes best in the most inhospitable terrain...
...strategy comes easily to Gephardt because he, more than any other Democratic candidate, has an instinct to please, an inclination to tell people what he thinks they want to hear. Yet he is tapping a real well of discontent and economic nationalism. Such a message plays well in regions where times are hard and resentment is ready to be roused. But it is hardly a blueprint for governing...
...narrator's brain- dazed brother, an outlaw biker, kills a man in a brawl -- something happens here, certainly -- the fact comes out only as an aside, as part of a moody, troubling description of his skirmish with a bored psychiatrist at a VA hospital. The author's sound instinct is to play against the dramatic. There is no resolution of the brother's predicament. You are missing the point if you try to watch one chunk of carrot in the roil of this Sleazy Street stew (the phrase is from a country-funk song lyric in praise of downward mobility...