Word: hotheadedness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Throughout its six days of decision in July, spread over two weeks, the Rodino committee maintained a spirit of compromise. The reputedly hotheaded liberals, such as Michigan's John Conyers, California's Jerome Waldie and Massachusetts' Father Robert Drinan, spoke pointedly but with unexpected restraint. The Democratic...
But within the Arab world Sadat was bringing about a new sense of fraternity, particularly during the past six months. He regained the support of King Feisal, who was said to feel chagrined that his advice to the Egyptian President about ousting the Russians had been mistaken. Libya's...
Parsifal. The recent thrust toward Arab control of Middle Eastern oil began in 1970, and the man who started it all was the new, young (then 28) and hotheaded ruler of Libya, Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, who had seized power in a military coup the year before. Spurred by the instincts...
Wrath of God. Seemed much gutsier than the Last 18 minutes of Duck, You Sucker, which has received far more acclaim. Its full of cliches, but the filmmakers are cynically conscious of them. Robert Mitchum is his typical boozing self, Ken Hutchinson is a fine hotheaded Irishman (where has he...
ON A PERSONAL level, The Godfather doesn't glorify Mafiosi. It shows them as the hotheaded hoods and wiser, mellower monsters that they are. They live in their own social and spiritual hierarchy: the men of the New York Five Families here depicted battle for position in an underworld pecking...