Word: temperance
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...After her husband's death, Willey lashed out at Lanasa. "She called me at 3 in the morning and said I killed her husband," he says. "She called two or three times until we got the warrant saying that she couldn't call us." Still, Willey's famous temper (her nickname "Irish" was on her license plate) would not be aimed at the President. Just days after he had allegedly groped her, the widow bragged to friends that he would attend Ed's funeral...
...matter how they baited him, Gates held his famous temper and stuck to his message: Microsoft is not a monopoly; anyone can upend the topsy-turvy software industry with a cool new idea. As he put it later, "At the end of the day there's only one question: Are we allowed to innovate? We'll make sure that this boils down to that one question...
...would have been very psyched to go in therewith her and try to, if not counter her, at leasttry to temper her impact. I'm very sad that shewon't be out there playing with us because itwould have been amazing to play with someone ofher caliber. You never want to see someone getinjured...
...there's this common misperception that it's not OK to lose your temper and attempt to attack someone physically, especially an authority figure. I've got as bad a temper as anyone else, so I'm pretty happy with that. Your TF screws you? Go to office hours and beat the hell out of him. It's all right after today's decision...
...also thinks of Leger finding a typical style early and sticking to it. But this, as the show reveals, is not altogether true. He was a consistent artist but a very eclectic one as well, and one of the things that endears him to the Postmodernist temper is the way that traces of practically all the early 20th century movements, from Fauvism and Orphism to Cubism and even Surrealism, turn up in his work--not as a mishmash of quotes but as integrated elements. There's even a bow to Dada in a peculiar picture from 1930 in which...