Word: tempers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...such glamorous candidates as Robert Redford, Warren Beatty and Jack Nicholson were ruled out in favor of lesser-known actors with a tougher, more authentic look: Al Pacino as Michael, the Ivy-educated son who succeeds the Godfather; James Caan as the lusty Sonny, the oldest son whose hot temper betrays him; Robert Duvall as the adopted son Tom Hagen, the lawyer who be comes the family's consigliere; John Cazale as Fredo, the timid, feckless son who is given a Las Vegas casino to play with. For the role of Luca Brasi, the Godfather's muscleman, Ruddy...
...those who could put war on paper. Statistics and maps filled him with a passion to organize them. By 1942 he was chief of intelligence on the eastern front. Toward the end, when accuracy meant prognosticating defeat, Gehlen's accurate reports earned him one of Hitler's temper tantrums. But this last-minute fall from favor only helped certify his anti-Nazi posture afterward...
...adventure, but it soon became just a long trek through cold and dingy streets. I through it annoyed me so much that I was always in a bad mood by the time I reached Barrie's, but making the same journey back into London always improved my temper, and so at length I drew a new conclusion...
...approaches to the issues, he is keeping them to himself. He is asking voters to have confidence in him-and confidence he projects. Slightly aloof and uncomfortable in large crowds, he tends to preach a bit. He also has a way of losing his temper, as in New Hampshire recently when a high school student popped him a question that seemed to come straight out of the McGovern camp. But Muskie knows how to mix it up with the folks without losing his dignity. His fondness for puns, funny or not, adds some spice to his speeches. He is nothing...
...temper of the evening changed as, moving to another mike, Danner assumed the voice of an angry, broken down actress for a poem called "Monologue of a Broadway Actress." "Where are the great writers! Where?" the poem asks, and Danner looked over at Yevtushenko who was sitting, smoking as he most often did when not reciting, in the shadows of the stage near the piano...