Word: temperedness
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When he died some weeks ago, of leukemia at age 77, I didn't say much either--just bowed my head. I went over to see his wife Jane, and again said little. I asked John's daughter Frances if I might have a picture of him, so that I...
Anchors aweigh! A few weeks ago it was ABC's Peter Jennings with The Century, a stately, pre-millennium cruise through the past 100 years. This week NBC's Tom Brokaw launches The Greatest Generation (Random House; 390 pages; $24.95), an effusive tribute to the men and women who, tempered...
Arafat's satisfaction, however, was tempered when thousands of Palestinians rioted in the West Bank city of Ramallah two days after the signing ceremony. It had nothing to do with the agreement, about which ordinary Palestinians have shown indifference and skepticism. Instead, the unrest was the culmination of a feud...
Any talk of a trend in the '90s, of course, has to be tempered by the consideration that this is a pick-'n'-package decade, its denizens choosing parts of many eras and repackaging them for easier and faster consumption. Witness the mini glam-rock revival rippling through the culture...
The FRIENDS--Monica, Joey, Ross, Rachel, Chandler and even the sweet-tempered Phoebe--have been feeling rather unfriendly these days. Having recently celebrated the 100th episode of their series, which has generated hundreds of millions of dollars for Warner, the Friends were hoping for some special acknowledgment from the studio...