Word: prima
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Richard Dawson plays the ratings-hungry game show host to near perfection, combining the geniality he used with contestants on "Family Feud" with the perspective of a prima donna power fiend. Schwarzenegger has some trouble when he has to string together several sentences at a time, but once the action gets going, he carries it along and delivers the punchy one-liner like no one else. He is paired with Maria Conchita Alonso, perhaps the only actress around with English enunciation as bad as Schwartzeneggar's. Still, she manages to give her character a toughness that keeps her from being...
...moments of pique, then wisely filed away unmailed. His diaries, though intermittent, are no less revealing. In June 1945, as General Douglas MacArthur was closing in on the islands near Japan, Truman's entries foreshadow the bitter personal battles that lay ahead. He describes the general as "Mr. Prima Donna, Brass Hat Five Star MacArthur" in one entry and adds, "He's worse than the Cabots and the Lodges -- they at least talked to one another before they told God what...
...FIRST place, Harvard students are too serious about themselves. I suppose it's natural that when you group 6000 young prima donnas that they learn to thrive in an atmosphere of self-congratulation lethal to normal humans, losing their tolerance for anything that threatens their self-image. Me, I was born with a bad attitude. I can't take anything seriously for long, particularly myself--causing consternation and bewilderment in those around...
While there is no definitive proof that the Austrian President committed war crimes, a Justice Department spokesman said the "evidence collected establishes a prima facie case that Kurt Waldheim assisted or otherwise participated in the persecution of persons because of race, religion, national origin or political opinion." For years Waldheim had left the impression that he had been wounded on the Soviet front in 1941 and spent most of the remaining war years finishing his studies. He later admitted he was a first lieutenant on the staff of German Group E in the Balkans from...
...Hockey Team already has its share of high scorers and high IQ's what we need are some hard hitters who make opponents smart. Players who would show that the All-Hockey Team is made up of both prima donnas and matadors...