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There is still an unstated convention among mixed-doubles men that a male player is never beastly to the woman across the net. When it is broken, reports Ethel Kennedy's tennis pro Bob Graham, male rage is aroused. Says he: "I've never seen men actually come to blows, unless they're playing with their wives." Today, however, more and more women are acquiring the skill to be beastly on their own and to hit hard. "I love to shock men by coming back with a strong overhead," says Debbie Humphreys, the wife of a New Jersey teaching...
Except the nation never saw it. CBS's Lesley Stahl ran up, shouting "Mister, who are you?" and other network reporters witnessed Ellis' rage. But the TV cameras had already homed in on the anchor men for closing comments. Much of the week was like that. In spectacular contrast to last month's Democratic Convention, the early part of the Republican gathering was so laced with suspense, color, passion and occasional humor that the show seen on the tube was far hotter than a made-for-television movie...
...firebrand and an actor." That perfectly describes Rassias himself. For an upper-class lecture on the 18th century French philosopher Diderot, Rassias shows up in class in a blond wig, breeches and billowing shirt and proceeds to act out the emotional states that Diderot argued are unique to man. Rage, for instance, is depicted by heaving a chair across the room. Says Rassias: "If you want to teach, you have to be willing to walk out of class exhausted...
...Terry as James captures the essence of the resentful, mediocre man in his every movement and expression. As he ambles around the stage, shoulders slightly hunched, you can feel it in his bearing: These people are using me. They are out to humiliate me. And his occasional outbursts of rage create a varied texture in his performance; but these moments, which should be the strongest, are ruined, since Laquidara in confronting him is so unforceful. James's "impotent" tantrums appear overwhelming in contrast...
...soft-spoken Magnuson, "came out of Deadwood, S. Dak., where Wild Bill Hickok was shot to death in a card game." During Magnuson's time, the town "got itself a new, eager-beaver district attorney who closed down all the local brothels. That sent Deadwood into a rage, particularly the mothers, who were grateful to the bawds for keeping troops from a nearby Air Force base 'away' from their daughters. In addition, the generous whores bought the town an annual present from their profits. The year before, it had been a fire engine...