Word: temperate
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...women-one a sleek, actressy adventuress named Linda, who takes her matadors at their peak, and is played, in a brief and startlingly persuasive performance, by Linda Christian. Moment gives this conventional plot the classic simplicity of folk art. Gianni di Venanzo's vibrant color photography uncovers the temper of Spain among black-hooded worshipers at a religious festival, among whores and homosexuals in the slums of Barcelona, in the face of a proud old taskmaster whose dingy urban cellar houses a school for stripling toreros. In one sequence, the disconsolate Miguelin wanders through a sere, light-washed Spanish...
...closest assistants knew until quite recently of departures from the Service's prescribed policies," he told Missouri Democrat Edward V. Long, chairman of a Senate Judiciary subcommittee investigating federal encroachments on citizens' privacy. Cohen promised to right any injustices, then said of his agents: "While we must temper their zeal with controlled judgment, we cannot categorically deprive them of tools and training with legitimate, exemplary uses...
Moyers' performance in his new job is largely shaped by his relationship with the President. Johnson gave Moyers' predecessor little leeway. Wary of the presidential temper, Reedy even hesitated to reveal Johnson's traveling plans, much to the annoyance of the White House correspondents. As an intimate of the President, Moyers not only attends staff meetings, he also helps make policy. So he has no trouble fielding questions about major matters at his twice-a-day briefings...
...Madame Coco La Fontaine, proprietress of an overstuffed boîte de nuit, Ethel Merman sports pink, green and violet wigs, and shouts insults at anyone who stops by to untangle the plot. Merman's bad temper is understandable, since she has to oversee a series of stale farcical escapades, the last of which has Garner going to the guillotine accused of Van Dyke's murder...
Film Battle. Unable to throw his enemies out of power, Villa's temper grew worse and his acts more erratic. In 1915, he led his army into open rebellion against the government. He tried to enlist the sympathy of the U.S. press by staging a real battle at the request of a film company. He tried to discredit the regime by raiding the border town of Columbus, N. Mex., and, although he achieved headline notoriety by disappearing with his whole army while General "Black Jack" Pershing led a 12,000-man punitive expedition after him, Obregon did not fall...