Word: rage
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...such "bargains" as a lemon squeezer or potato peeler. A friend remembered a lunch at Claridges during which Maria proudly produced her latest finds. The Callas jealousy was legendary. The sight of her beloved Visconti, who was homosexual, merely talking with Leonard Bernstein sent her into a rage. Yet she did not always take herself seriously. At one of her classes, a student confessed to problems with "three or four notes." Replied the diva: "Likewise...
...last week's World Championships, she was doing well, when, in the closing seconds of her two-minute short program, she fell while attempting a flying sit spin. She skated off the ice in a rage. Her coach, Peter Burrows, understood: "Elaine's routine was clean to the last move, and then she made a mistake...
...Rage of Angels, Sheldon...
...Himes' hero, Bob Jones, takes his girlfriend to an exclusive restaurant, where the waiters stick them off in a corner and where other customers ogle the black couple as if they were birds in a zoo. Jones' girlfriend is mortified. He trembles between panic and rage. Looking around the room, he sees a white ensign and a "very blond girl" sitting with an older couple, evidently the parents of one of them. Jones and the ensign have been casually admiring each other's girlfriend, and when their eyes meet neither shows hostility, "only a mild surprise...
...Rage of Angels, Sheldon...