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Biden recognizes that these incidents feed the perception that he is a gabby lightweight. He is no "hothead," he insists; certain occasions warrant anger, but his temper is "measured." One friend suggests that the hip shooting comes from a "complicated mix of the emotional and the calculating." A Biden aide observes that "somewhere in him is the Irish Catholic kid struggling to show 'them' that he's as good as they...
Nothing is wasted on an Abbott show. Rehearsals start on time, and there are no temper tantrums or displays of nerves from either the director or the actors. Legend has it that a Method-trained actor once yelled from the stage, "What's my motivation?", to which Abbott responded, "Your job." He despises what he considers exaggerated interpretations. "If an actor puts his personality ahead of creating the character, then he's not an actor," he says. "He's just a performer...
...Secord's testimony, which occupied the entire first week of public hearings by the joint congressional committee investigating the most explosive political scandal in a decade. Testifying primarily in the unemotional tones of a math professor but occasionally displaying flashes of deadpan wit and, under cross-examination, an acerbic temper, the retired Air Force major general described for four days how he organized and ran a private network that at the Government's behest secretly supplied arms to the contras in Nicaragua and later to Iran. Much of the story had been told before, most notably in the scathing February...
...only thing to say is that Bill is a very nice person," Fish added. "He has a temper that he can't control on the court. The team understands how they're expected...
...Cribb will be the primary custodian of the conservative flame as White House director of domestic affairs. A close adviser to Meese for seven years, both in the White House and at the Justice Department, Cribb, 38, has a reputation as a tough ideological infighter with a hair-trigger temper. Conservative Columnist William Buckley recently lauded him as an "arrestingly bright young man." Cribb seems destined to supplant Gary Bauer, a conservative intellectual who was recruited from the Education Department as a ranking domestic adviser in the waning days of the Regan regime. "Gary will continue to formulate domestic policy...