Word: instinctive
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...drug-taking was a password with the group, but it is interesting to note that they all recognized their fears and called it by its name. Some felt that paranoia was the worst part of taking drugs while others explained that it was a safety device, or an animal instinct of survival which the drug had not been able to eradicate. All of those I talked to had their doubts about talking to me at first, and many later pleaded that no article be printed for fear that it would turn the heat on them. But most of them were...
...Schwartz, who both wrote and directed it. But the acting is not only equal to the play itself, it often surpasses it. With the exception of Mark Liberman as Charles, the pedagogue, the cast plays its multiple parts (the lovers are the same royal family) with balance and professional instinct. I don't know whether Charles was intended to be played as he was but the effect was nevertheless unfortunate. Bro Uttal was thoroughly convincing in a demanding role and it would be impossible to say which of the girls was best. Not only did they make the fantasy...
...live to see direction become destination. Worn out by half a century of continual concertizing, he died in 1924 at the age of 58. He was, in his own words, "a weak man, yet a stout wrestler, whom doubts drive hither and thither; master of thought, slave of instinct, exhausting all things, finding no answer." A Faustian figure...
Sweet Charity. Gwen Verdon is the dancer assoluta of the U.S. musical stage. She moves to the impulsive music of instinct as a child laughs and a dolphin leaps. She is Terpsichore's darling and yet fortune's foil. She is a wistful waif out of a Chaplin two-reeler, a Broadway gamin skipping along the harsh pavements of defeat with perky gallantry, one of nature's eternally winning losers. Verdon is verdant, and it is lucky that all is well with her, for all is not so well with her musical...
...clothes-a golden sable coat with a middy collar, a green brocade suit of the same material as her bedroom walls and, for accessories, old beaded bags with real jewel clasps and new shoes with old buckles. The Couture Group liked it, cited her "extraordinary individuality and infallible fashion instinct." Sighed Barbra. "Now life will be so much less frustrating. I've been labeled with the kookie image for so long...