Word: controled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...always revels in his suffering. He is a masochist. He feels, he intentionally embroiders on his feelings, and he can at the same time even objectively observe himself from outside. He is always conscious of his audience--even when the audience is just himself. He undergoes emotions, but can control and channel them as he sees fit. Shakespeare has made Richard the purveyor of artificial and ear-tickling poetry, full of wonderful imagery. In fact, Richard's speeches tend to be arias and ariosos. Never was Shakespeare more intent on creating verbal music (and indeed it is no accident that...
...Kahn and Madden have agreed to minimize or obliterate the control, the masochism, the supermusicality. Instead Madden plays it "straight," purely on the experiential level; what he feels he voices without modification. This approach is indicated most clearly by the fact that, at moments of tension and anxiety, Richard's speech is afflicted by a slight stammering over sibilants and gutturals. There are even traces of the Maurice Evans tremolo, and at one point Madden pushes his voice to a gargly fortissimo. Later he even seems to suffer a chest spasm or an asthma attack...
...Control a laser beam with a system of gas-filled tubes and mirrors...
...longtime N.R.A. member, I view the forthcoming gun-control laws with much concern. Nevertheless, the statement of N.R.A. President Harold Glassen, "We don't tell anyone to write his Congressman," is an outright lie. I refer to a letter addressed to N.R.A. members from the office of President Glassen, dated June 14, 1968, in which he urges "sportsmen of America" to express their views without delay to their Senators and Congressmen. Glassen further states that the ultimate goal of said gun legislation is complete abolition of civilian firearm ownership...
Commercial Credit is confident that Loew's tender offer, which expires at the end of this week, will fail to attract enough stock to win control. But in one sense, Loew's stands to win even if it loses. The takeover struggle has sent Commercial Credit's stock soaring, with the result that Loew's last week showed a paper profit of more than $20 million on its holding in the company...