Word: tempers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Reversed Roles. "I worried about Mama, but not in certain ways," she says. "I never saw her in a situation she couldn't handle, even if she was having a tantrum or hysterical crying. But when she'd get in a temper, it was frightening, because she'd yell a lot and I'd freeze. Lots of yelling. Now I avoid people who are screaming at all costs. My eyes glaze over when someone begins to yell, and my mind retreats back to someplace else so they can't get through...
Assassin Sirhan B. Sirhan is coming up in the world. After nearly three years in a maximum security cell on San Quentin's Death Row No. 1, the murderer of Robert F. Kennedy has got over his temper tantrums and been moved to Death Row No. 3, where he will be permitted to mingle with "the most amiable" condemned prisoners while waiting for the U.S. and California to make up the public mind on capital punishment...
Auniquely controversial issue raised at a Rabbinical Convention in Jerusalem, June, 1971, illustrates particularly well the conflicting cross-currents in Israeli attitudes, and the strange temper given to questions of "a higher order": In problems of state morality, must Israel yet act in the role of the Chosen People, a nation whose God-given duty is to set an ethical example to the other nations: or should Israel allow itself, as a state involved in the "temporal" complexities of international politics, the luxury of compromising morality in matters of expedience, as any other state might do without hesitation? The notion...
Aside from being an arena for exercise and competition, wrestling has been a learning process for Blakinger. "I've learned to control my temper and to react to failure," Blakinger said...
Eventually she landed the part that finally made her a movie star-Alice in Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice. With stardom, there quickly came a reputation for star temperament and all the late arrivals, weeping fits and temper tantrums that go with it. "Like any strong woman," shrugs Producer Frankovich, "she's got fangs." The director who seems to have felt them most keenly is Preminger, himself no Teddy bear. On the set of Such Good Friends, they clashed over her lateness, his penchant for exacting retakes (58 on one scene), and her refusal to pose completely in the nude...