Word: temperance
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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West German politicians were off and railing against each other last week in a Wagnerian opening to their eight-week national election campaign. Chancellor Willy Brandt lost his temper at a press conference. Karl Schiller, who had resigned as Brandt's Economics and Finance Minister in June, quit the Social Democratic Party completely, accusing his Cabinet successor, Helmut Schmidt, of "demagogic downplaying" of inflation. Another former Finance Minister, Christian Social Union Leader Franz Josef Strauss, likened Brandt's views on price increases to those of a simple hausfrau...
...kill Abel. Played as a pretty-boy smart-ass by the top-billed Hal Holbrook, the Devil resembles a cross between a quick-talking, shifty-eyed lawyer and a slightly hip John Wayne. Holbrook appears appropriately serpentine even as he swaggers with self-esteem, but perhaps he could temper his over-confidence a little, considering he flubbed his lines at least three times on the second night of performance...
...including the Met), has virtually turned the work into a gypsy folk opera. This Carmen does not carry a rose in her teeth; she would bite it off. Don Jose is no innocent victim of Carmen's wiles; to her obvious fascination, he is a brute with enough temper to kill. With the hauntingly Iberian sets by Czech Designer Josef Svoboda, one can believe that Seville is steaming hot (it literally is: 280,000 watts of light beam down on the cast from behind the proscenium), that Pastia's tavern is a fun place to go, that...
...presume that attitude the filmmakers wanted to express was 'this is the way the system works, and if we want to change it from within, we'll have to temper our idealism.' That's total bullshit. All the film is saying is this is the atmosphere, these are the pressures...
...Rooney went to court in Santa Monica, Calif., to gain custody of four of his children, who have been living with their grandmother since the 1968 death of their mother, Barbara Thomason, the fifth of Rooney's seven wives. The judge asked Rooney if he had a bad temper. Said Rooney, identifying himself as a member of the Science of Mind Church: "Yes, but I curbed it through Christ...