Word: temperately
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...fearless. He will ask anybody anything." A micromanager, he is obsessed with everything from program budgets to office design. Fox staff members in Manhattan recall secretaries scurrying around before one Diller visit, trying to replace the red poinsettias with the white ones Diller prefers. His outbursts of temper are legendary. During an argument with Stephen Chao, the former head of production for Fox's owned stations (later fired by Murdoch for hiring a nude male model to illustrate a lecture on censorship), Diller threw a videocassette so hard it broke a hole in the wall. Chao put a frame around...
...Listen, goddammit, you can't do that!" When the sayings of President Clinton are compiled, you won't find this among them. The target of Clinton's rebuke: an aide squeezing the mayor of Washington out of a presidential photo op. The private Clinton is known for his temper. This example got picked up on an open mike...
...University Professor Helen H. Vendler praised Brodhead's "remarkable sanity and perceptiveness" as well as his "even temper and high intelligence...
...control, so laying that much on him was easy," says one of the Blair House participants. "The question beforehand was how to tell him that some of the cost estimates and revenue projections in PPF were, to put it mildly, unrealistic. Clinton has a fierce temper -- you don't ever want to be on its receiving end -- and he was convinced the PPF numbers were airtight. So we rehearsed what to say and scripted around a bit in the hope of avoiding an outburst...
...experience when he says, "If you don't keep family in mind in this business, you lose them." A first marriage fell apart during his early years in corrections, when he had not yet learned to leave the strains of the job at the office. "I had a bad temper," he says. "I'd carry it home and let it rip." Now he refuses to discuss office problems at home...