Word: instinctive
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When fighting breaks out, the first instinct of a good journalist is to get close to the action. But as TIME correspondents found in reporting this week's stories on the clashes in the Gulf of Sidra and Central America, the best seats are usually hard to come by. Says Middle East Correspondent John Borrell, who has covered numerous wars: "All too often you are either too far away or too close...
...begin to suspect that there is in us a voyeuristic craving, an instinct which tempts us to spectate rather than to read. "In other words, I never get away from myself." A twinge of uneasiness prompts us to ask, what are we reading here? This writing defies understanding, subverts the process of making meaning through any rubric...
...while Neustadt made it clear he felt Reagan is heading in the wrong direction on Nicaragua, the professor praised the president's "great political instinct on when you have to cut losses...
...repetition, and at the start of the '60s he was seeking a way to get color back into his work. In fact, it had not entirely left; browns, vermilions and rust-reds are buried under the black girders of the '50s. Contrary to received opinion, Kline had a strong instinct for color, and by 1961 it was at full stretch in paintings like Andrus, with its slashing chords of violet, ultramarine and cadmium red. Andrus, which was in Kline's last show, was named after his cardiologist; in the spring of 1962 his rheumatic heart gave out. Thus what Kline...
Much of 20th century American design seems to have been animated by two competing impulses. One is a kind of mannered childishness, a sometimes arch toymaker's instinct that produced the streamlined gadgetry of late art deco, the Day-Glo plastics of Pop, the high-tech doodads and joke furniture of today. The other is a reformist urge. When not fashioning playthings, designers turn grave, producing furniture and other objects that are neo- Puritan, high-minded. The severe geometries of Frank Lloyd Wright's turn- of- the-century interiors and Steven Holl's beautiful side chair (1984), for example...