Word: temperedness
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Could Hiroshima happen again? For 60 years the sense of power that goes with having a nuclear capability has been tempered by another emotion: naked fear of the horror that nuclear weapons can cause. From John Hersey's heartbreaking journalism for the New Yorker in 1946, through films, books and...
Director David Dobkin (veteran of the Wilson flick “Shanghai Knights” and Vaughn’s “Clay Pigeons”) allows the romance to slip into overload, and the numerous musical montages and extreme close-ups to start to grate. But all this...
The relief at recovering the missing commando has been tempered by the heavy loss of American life--and the knowledge that more fighting lies ahead. The Taliban's offensive shows no sign of waning and is apparently aimed at sabotaging September's parliamentary elections. U.S. Colonel Don McGraw, director of...
The Times can be a contentious family, and Frankel has proved he can play good daddy or stern father. In his five years as Washington bureau chief, a position he finally did get in 1968, "Max was the most humane editor," recalls one Pulitzer prizewinner who worked for him. "It...
They have judged their material well. Fast Eddie is not a man going gentle into his sunset years. His shrewdness has been tempered but not dulled by time, and now he is in need of a workout. The first time Eddie sees Vincent and his girlfriend (Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, fascinating...