sentences:  Verhoeven followed those successes with the equally intense and provocative "Basic Instinct" (1992), an erotic thriller.The ninth-highest-grossing film of the year, the movie was a return to themes Verhoeven had explored in "Turkish Delight" and "The Fourth Man".The film's most notorious scene shows Sharon Stone's character in a police interrogation, where she uncrosses her legs, briefly revealing her vulva (she does not wear underwear underneath her skirt).