Word: tempered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...years later, Reagan is betting his re-election that the response to this question is yes, but not only is his perceived answer highly debatable this time around, it also begs off the real issues of the campaign and underscores the malicious effect his policies have wreaked on the temper of America's political values...
...boast at least one notable achievement. Although Crippen, Sullivan, Leetsma, Jon McBride, Sally Ride, Paul Scully-Power and Marc Garneau of Canada were crammed into an area the size of a small studio apartment, they made it through eight days without any noticeable clashes or even displays of temper. Marveled Crippen of the largest space crew ever, "You really can fit seven people in here...
DIED. Walter Alston, 72, calm, temper-cooling, pennant-collecting manager who from 1954 to 1976 guided the Dodgers, in Brooklyn and then in Los Angeles, to seven National League titles and four World Championships; of heart disease; in Oxford, Ohio, near the sharecropper's farm where he was born. Alston, who struck out in his only major league turn at bat in 1936, won more than 2,000 regular-season games. During his career he steadied such future Hall of Fame members as Jackie Robinson, Duke Snider, Sandy Koufax and Don Drysdale, and was named to the Hall himself...
...CHIEF FAILURE of The Jigsaw Man is that a case of international dimensions is treated with the importance of an episode of S.W.A.T.. Only Olivier's appearance as the crusty and acerbic Scaithe partially redeems the film. He peppers the otherwise inane conversation with his biting and volatile temper, lashing out at bungling subordinates and proving to be always a step ahead of the rest. With him and Caine back together on the screen again, the movie could have evolved into an action packed version of Sleuth, with two spies par excellance trying to outsmart one another...
...also been provided, like his real-life doppelgānger, with a black father and a Mediterranean mother. In the movie, Dad cuffs Mom around a good deal: he is a frustrated musician, which explains these bouts of violent temper; she shrieks and screams a lot, which presumably demonstrates her ethnicity. If women are sexual baubles in Prince's songs, in his movie they are tarnished angels who love to have their wings clipped. Apollonia (the "baptismal name" of Newcomer Patricia Kotero, 22) strips down and jumps into an icy lake to win The Kid's approval...