Word: temperance
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Adani, a Levantine of unspecified nationality, contains all the ruthlessness, greed, ill temper and bad manners heretofore ascribed to some Jewish studio heads. The unfortunate result is to create two stereotypes where one is more than enough. The characterization nevertheless has its uses. Adani sends a class operator to California to make a deal with Farber. He bears the elegant name of Guy Barrere and a resume that includes the Columbia University School of Journalism and Rolling Stone...
...been more electricity between the electric horseman and his lady. And Willie Nelson, the great country singer, is wasted in his first acting role. Still, there is not a more cheerful or engaging movie around these days. One can't help coming out of it in smiling good temper, having spent a fine time with nice, but catchily eccentric people. -Richard Schickel
...announces that the villain is not merely a Death Star, but "a great, living machine." When Ilia, the Enterprise's navigator, is captured by the enemy and literally rewired to be its servant, she explains that the machine is seeking its creator and is terribly cross. The bad temper results from the fact that though the great machine thinks like a whiz, it has no human emotions. And so the picture ends not with a bang but, as it were, a bang. One of the space cadets, who has had his eye on the original Ilia all along, agrees...
...have the endowment, Harvard has, we don't have the resources," James Blake, public relations director for the college, said yesterday. "Everything we have is mortgaged, and no matter what we would like to do we have to temper it with our pocketbook," he added...
...suppose I learned they weren't an enemy out to do me in. They sincerely believed in their ways as I believe in mine, and so I suppose there is a sort of tolerance I gained in that regard. I don't think I lose my temper quite as quickly as I once...