Word: temperedness
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"I'm really fresh and really anxious," she says of her preparations for upcoming confrontations with a strong Soviet, Tatyana Samolenko, and Rumanian Paula Ivan. There will be no rematch with South Africa-born Budd. Slaney's Olympic nemesis was tastelessly hounded into retirement earlier this year by foes of...
Critics have likened TV watching to drug addiction. But as the big three networks have learned to their discomfort, viewing -- at least of particular programs or channels -- is a habit considerably easier to kick than cocaine or heroin. That is why the rejoicing over last week's settlement of a...
It was likely that love that kept Randy's rocking peers reasonably respectful of his musical interests. The family was Baptist affiliated, but Daddy Harold Traywick, a hard-tempered turkey farmer and horse trader, and Mama Bobbie, a textile worker, bent the church rules a little bit and had the...
El Norte is not just a parable for immigrant visions crushed by reality. It is a caustic metaphor for Hispanic-American filmmakers lusting to conquer Hollywood. Years of slammed doors have tempered hope with skepticism, even when one smash movie has opened doors a crack. La Bamba, a low-budget...
The word is sensibilidad. It refers to a quality of temperament easier to recognize than define, a spacious basket of subtleties: strength without roughness, pride tempered with humor, a hint of festival, a tinge of tragedy. Like the monolithic term Hispanic, it tends to blur the individual colors of each...