Word: rancor
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What distinguishes Temple is an absence of rancor. Producer Arthur Freed exposed himself to her when she was eleven; she now claims to have found the act hilarious. Despite her father's fiscal mismanagement, she has kind memories of him, and her autobiography concludes with the tribute "Thanks...
...exhibition space. Both display a Nam June Paik piece, clips from the compilation film Precious Images, and a model of a drive-in theater. Both have been ages in the planning, though MOMI's 1978 prospectus preceded AMMI's by three years, and a trace of bantering rancor shows through the Brits' geniality toward their upstart colonial rival. Perhaps because MOMI was spawned by the venerable British Film Institute, it seems a more comprehensive and congenial trip down the Yellow Brick Road of movie and TV history. It is certainly the more lavish in ambition and design: a superproduction...
Dukakis had won. Defeat on the convention floor was inevitable. But Jackson made clear his loyalty to the party, his commitment to unity. "In 1980 rancor in the spring and summer led to Reagan in the fall. When we divide, we cannot win. We must find common ground as a basis for survival and development and change and growth...
...populism can keep itself in motion without the prods of rancor. Even the villains of his moral fables -- the barracudas who devour little fish of all sorts ("barracudas swim very deep, where it's very dark; they can't even tell whether they are swallowing white fish or black fish") -- are not so much evil in their own waters, but mainly when they swim back at us from Taiwan. GE is attacked for selling goods made overseas with jobs the company took from America in the first place. Jackson's solution is to keep GE at home with a combination...
...Reagan is more cautious in commenting on the General Secretary than he was following the first two summits. The more the contact, the more the wariness. But there remains a unique feeling between the men, an understanding that they can confront each other and argue without the world-jarring rancor of other years...