Word: instinctiveness
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...sociologist tries to refute such a basic biological tenet as evolution and natural selection. For behavior patterns and their modification possibilities through learning are fixed in the genes of species, consequently modified but not eradicated in individual development. Just as ethologists are beginning to find that man has more instinct-caused behavior than we thought, Simon and Gagnon rush in the opposite direction with their absurd conclusions...
Despite its director's reputation, La Prisonnière is the kind of skin-flick that rarely makes it off the grind-house circuit. But this film is being released in the U.S. by Joseph E. Levine, a canny showman with a shrewd instinct for profitable exploitation. Five years ago, the only chained-up people in Levine movies were Mediterranean musclemen and Nubian slaves. From this standpoint at least, La Prisonnière marks a certain kind of progress...
Formerly a photographer for Réaltiés and Paris Match, Madame Demy has an unerring instinct for the stylishly avantgarde. She photographed Les Créatures as if it were a Vogue layout, and edited it elliptically. She even tinted the fantasy scenes to avoid confusion: red for those influenced by the mad engineer at his game board, a benign pink for the writer-hero. The trouble is that she seems to take the hero's fantasy as seriously as he does. As in her other films (Cleo from 5 to 7, Le Bonheur), she mistakes pulp...
...which is somewhat like describing the law-abiding citizen through the reprehensible habits of the underworld. He focused on what he called the id-man's dark, powerful and basic animal urges-at the expense of the ego, even while recognizing the ego as the vital mediator between instinct and environment. Thus he missed, or scanted, some very basic questions. What is a normal-healthy-emotional climate? Cannot human unhappiness be conditioned as much by the present as by the past...
...characters of the three jell perfectly. Joey is perfectly suited for center and has a natural instinct to get the puck. DeMichele and Owen's play is suited to the wing position. Steve, on the right wing, is a fast skater, and, being lefthanded, is able to skate in on the net from his position. Dan, on the other wing, relies on his shot. His strength enables him to shoot with great power and precision," Kinasewich said...