Word: temperance
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...character: Incensed by the Indians performing their sacred dances for the pleasure of the company. I awrence suddenly starts breaking dishes. While it is surely understandable that he does "not want to be part of a literary zoo," there is no reason he should so violently erupt into a temper-tantrum a twelve-year-old would be ashamed to call his own. Lawrence's lack of character development alternated with explosive, melodramatic scenes, make him seem more a psychopath than an artist...
...Temper...
Losing one's temper at times, even unjustly, doesn't make a parent a monster. I'm not necessarily an admirer of Joan Crawford, but my sympathy lies with her for not being able to strike back at her accuser from the grave...
...onto the fashionably padded shoulders of the actress, whom Faye Dunaway's makeup artist, Lee C. Harman, gets just right. It was Crawford, after all, who had the career problems, the man problems, the drinking problem and, finally, the aging problem. That she sometimes lost her temper at home is hardly the stuff of tragedy, or even good melodrama. Yes, she occasionally raised her hand to her daughter. But thousands of children suffer far more terrible abuse every day-and don't have backyard swimming pools to soothe their feelings. Or get to write vindictive autobiographies that become...
McEnroe, who displayed little of his well-publicized temper before the over-flowing Flushing Meadow stadium crowd, settled into a pattern of running around Borg's second serve and rushing net behind deep forehand approaches. Anticipating Borg's counter-punches with uncanny consistency, he cut off many potential passing shots with untouchable volleys...