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...feel his pleasure in his insider status; he's puffed up from it. Then he lights a match to better examine graffiti left by someone who walked these boards in earlier days and inadvertently sets off the theater's sprinkler system, dousing everything, including Welles, who is madder than a wet cat. It perfectly catches the mood of the theater as seductress: one minute, she wants you, she makes you feel blessed, another, she reminds you what a buffoon you are to believe you belong here...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Me and Orson Welles: Zac Efron Takes the Stage | 11/25/2009 | See Source »

...athletes make snap decisions to skirt the rules in high-pressure situations. (Where was the global outcry when Michael Jordan pushed off on Utah's Bryon Russell before sinking the game-winning shot of the 1998 NBA Finals?) In this case, I was mad at Henry, but madder at the refs for missing the infraction, and enraged that soccer does not have some kind of replay rule to correct such obvious, easily reparable errors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hey Ireland, Please Drop the World Cup Do-Over | 11/20/2009 | See Source »

...states that followed. Two weeks before the Texas primary, Bill Clinton telephoned Waco insurance mogul and philanthropist Bernard Rapoport, a friend and backer since the 1970s. Rapoport told Clinton that this was the first contact he had had from anyone on the campaign. "He was madder than mad," Rapoport says. "He was right. There was so much we could have done, but we never heard from anyone at headquarters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bill Clinton: The Bitter Half | 2/28/2008 | See Source »

...didn't come here to make friends, but what's happened in my case is, I've offended everyone, every special interest group. So I don't have anything else to lose now, everybody's mad, all they'll do is get madder," Coburn said. "The real problem is if we don't have some people thinking about the long term, at every turn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Senate's G.O.P. Bomb Throwers | 9/19/2007 | See Source »

...wasn't for Barry Bonds, I wouldn't be in this situation. I'm madder at the media for blowing it out of proportion. Maybe they're telling the truth; maybe he's doing all this. I don't know. But I'm not directly angry at Bonds. There's no malice towards...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Man Who'll Cash In on Bonds | 8/29/2007 | See Source »

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