Word: temperments
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...began with a firm, a priori grasp of reality. A case in point is his Self-Portrait Shouting One Morning, 1969. "I was in a filthy mood," Arikha recalls. "I climbed out of bed, yelling at my wife, yelling at the shaving mirror . . ." The bleary-eyed moment of evil temper is caught with acid precision in an image as transitory as the mood itself. The quick, scrubby notations for nose and cheek bone and wiry corncob hair compose themselves around the black hole of a mouth; it is calligraphy as snapshot...
...same old story about how hard-working and attentive he is, how eager to innovate, how much the heart-throb of the ballet world in shots of his ogling fans, almost all of them are teeny-boppers or middle-aged women). Fonteyn begs the question of Nureyev's temper: "superficially he might seem to have some bad sides, but I don't think they're important." I can understand that the makers of the film might have been hesitant to pry uninvited into Nureyev's private affairs: if his reputation is at all based in fact, he might...
...federal employees if it subpoenas him and the President tells him not to appear. The Attorney General insisted that the doctrine involved "an enduring constitutional value" extending almost back to the Constitution's birth. But as Maine Democrat Edmund Muskie, keeping his short temper carefully in check, asked for legal precedents and a more precise history of the doctrine, Kleindienst turned vague and sarcastic, referring to Muskie's "piercing questions...
...satisfied here; personalities are protected from tension and splintering. It's as easy as "Let's live together." For that reason the personalities in Cesar and Rosalie interact no more profoundly than billiard balls. The dramatic moments simply lack credibility. Cesar, for example, is subject to violent fits of temper occasioned by Rosalie's desertion--but the tone of the movie informs us that these are nothing but outbursts of sound and fury, moving toward no tragic destination, only emphasizing Cesar's buffoonish character. Since such incidents neither shift the equilibrium of forces nor portend such a shift, they soon...
...lawyer who practices estate law needs to know the latest tax decisions, but he will only serve his client adequately if he also knows about King Lear. When a lawyer advises a client to give part of his property to his children, the lawyer needs to temper his knowledge of the tax advantages of such a transfer with knowledge of how children behave towards parents from whom they have nothing more to expect materially. I suspect that a reading of Dickens' Bleak House will teach a lawyer more about the pitfalls of complicated trusts than an advanced seminar...