Word: instinctiveness
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HITCHCOCK: No. I think that's the kind of thing one reverts to by instinct. The very first time I used that shot -- shooting down a stairwall -- was in a film I made, The Lodger, in 1926. And of course you didn't have sound in those days...
...probed incessantly and mechanically. Eugene O'Neill stopped his characters in mid-dialogue for asides to the audience about what they were really thinking, and every up-to-date fiction writer streamed with stream of consciousness. Dreams were busily explored for sex, and the denial of the sex instinct was blamed for nearly everything. Seducers in novels (as well as in real life) were forever telling girls: "The trouble is you're repressed...
Cultural Crisis. Novak believes that the church today faces "a cultural crisis of the first order of magnitude." Understandably, Catholicism's hierarchical leaders are uncertain as to how to deal with this new, nothing-sacred, questioning attitude. While the instinct of many bishops is to return to the traditional methods of control, suppression, denunciation and excommunication, Thorman points out that such a tactic cannot be applied to Catholic intellectuals who no longer fear authority. Yet church leaders fear that total freedom to question and doubt is to open Catholicism's doors to a plague of heresy and half...
Gamal Abdel Nasser's talent for spreading subversion in the Middle East is equaled only by his instinct for sniffing out subversion at home. That instinct has never been keener. Last week his courts sentenced 93 plotters for trying to beat Nasser at his own game...
Director Daniel Petrie sponges up London's local color, but The Idol tantalizes chiefly by concentrating on Parks, whose passing resemblance to Laurence Harvey offers no insurmountable obstacle. Intense, slow-burning and confidently virile, he has a star actor's natural instinct for arousing curiosity about what he will do next. Parks pulls attention to himself like a vagrant, possibly savage tomcat whose animal responses need not be understood to be interesting. And he makes most of moviedom's clean-jawed young swains look about as dangerous as campfire boys...