Word: instinctiveness
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...share. Now winner takes all with three networks in contention. The difference in price between an advertising minute on a top-rated show and its rivals is up to $100,000, and the other shows simply cannot attract big enough audiences. With the networks fighting over every hour, the instinct is to play safe. Programming has become one spin-off after another, either from a previous success or formats copied from British...
...evolution from the proscenium arch of the playwright to the zygomatic arch of the popular anthropologist, Robert Ardrey, 63, has never lost his instinct for drama. African Genesis, The Territorial Imperative and The Social Contract swept through millions of years, the disappearance of continents and the draining of oceans. Entrances and exits involved crushes of phyla and species. The first ape man dropped from the trees to begin his long journey toward sapience...
...millions upon millions of evolving years we killed for a living." It is a perfectly plausible statement but one that is likely to annoy those who prefer their original sin with religion, and psychologists who hold that aggression is mainly learned, not instinctual. Ardrey carefully avoids the word instinct, preferring the suggestion that as direct descendants of Cro-Magnon hunters, we retain "certain human propensities for the chase...
While Wertmuller wrestles with contract offers-including a three-picture deal with Warner Bros.-Giannini broods about "the instinct to reject anyone who is successful-true even for those who happen to love me very much...
...only tangential relation to "fascist" regimes of the thirties). That is, it preaches violence over due process, irrationality over rationality, and might over right. There is nothing in this film to indicate that madness may have any positive intellectual value--only the sense that any restriction of brute animal instinct is unjustified. Self-expression of the strong is the sole good. McMurphy differs from the other patients in that he remains physically unimpaired while mentally he's just as hopeless as they are--even more so since, unlike most of them, he doesn't realize there is anything wrong with...