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...vital vote and thus force the government's resignation. A mismanaged Liberal proposal might make it impossible for the N.D.P. to avoid voting with the Tories; a surprise maneuver by the Tories could catch the government short of members when an important vote was called; a Trudeau temper tantrum might shift the mood of the House against...
...Tantrums. To some of his critics at home, Nixon seemed to be acting as much out of petulance as out of any thoughtful diplomatic or military stratagems. James Reston of the New York Times called it "war by tantrum." But the Administration, as L.B.J. liked to say, simply hunkered down, keeping its own counsel. At the time of the Cambodian invasion and during the resumption of the bombing last spring, Nixon had taken his case to the American people over television. This time there was no TV appearance, no explanation or rationale offered. The first news of the attacks came...
...interest, its triangular network of human relationships. Rafelson splurges on suggestiveness and bankrupts the meaning of his suggestion. Sally's menopausal trauma is supposed to be a simmer that slowly comes to boil in manic proportions. But Rafelson dissects it into a series of chic vignettes; she throws a tantrum over rusty bathwater, is glimpsed through a bedroom door, naked, giddily squirting a watergun at a cowboy costumed Jessica. Tear-streaked, she burns her beauty aids with funereal ceremony, mourns her Maybelline in the sand, and ends by chopping her hair off with distraught, mechanical motions. Why is unexplained, lost...
...devastated. "My confidence was completely destroyed," he said. "It took a lot of self-discipline to come back." But Harris has learned to remain unruffled even when thrown out of a hospital room while attempting to visit a man still stunned at learning that he had cancer. "His temper tantrum, was part of the disease. He couldn't have unleashed it on his family," Harris explained...
With each passing year she became more the beloved public figure she deserved to be. There were still a few catcalls. Westbrook Pegler never stopped calling her "la boca grande," but fewer listened. In 1949 Cardinal Spellman threw an alarming tantrum over a "My Day" column opposing federal aid to parochial schools. He declared her conduct "unworthy of an American mother" but journeyed to Hyde Park personally to make peace when he realized that his fulminations were helping opposition to Catholic political candidates. Mrs. Roosevelt recorded the scene in a typical, ineffable column: "Miss Thompson came and said: 'Cardinal...