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Type-A Personalities
How It's Used
“There have been countless reports seeking to link heart disease and sudden death to various personality traits: aggressiveness, nervousness, anxiety, impatience, irritability, hostility, as well as the whole package of such characteristics labeled Type A behavior.”—Jane E. Brody, “Ancient Tool of Survival Is Deadly for the Heart,” The New York Times, May 21, 2002.“Many Type-A bathrooms are showing up in high-end 'smart homes,' which feature computer systems that let homeowners control music, temperature and lights from wall-mounted touch pads. Now, builders and interior designers say, more owners also want toilet-side technology. Future Home, a Los Angeles-based entertainment-system installer, says half of its clients request tech gear in the bathroom, up from about 10% five years ago. A year ago, New Jersey-based smart-home installer Crestron began offering an Internet option on its home touch-screen monitors. And Audio One says about all of the 30 home-automation systems it's installed near its Miami head office in the past year—prices can reach $200,000—have featured TVs in the bathroom. 'It's become a given,' says company engineer David Sussman. 'There's not much sanctity left.’”—Jon Weinbach and Peggy Edersheim Kalb, “The Type-A Bathroom,” The Wall Street Journal, February 3, 2006, p. W8.“Ms. Rao declined to comment on her own clerkship but said 'it's fair to say that many law clerks have totally strange experiences.' She added: 'This is to be expected if you're in very close quarters with just a couple of people—all type triple-A personalities and one judge who's tenured for life.’”—Peter Lattman, “A Novel Opens the Curtains Around Federal Clerkships,” The Wall Street Jounal, June 6, 2007, p. B2.“More problematically, 'NewsRadio' wouldn't, or couldn't, play ball with well-worn network standards. Creator Paul Simms was a veteran of the hyperdeadpan, NBC-bashing 'Late Night With David Letterman' and the acrid satire 'The Larry Sanders Show'; 'NewsRadio,' too, had a mild allergy to TV clichés and a (mostly gentle) penchant for biting the hand that feeds. Instead of maintaining the will-they-or-won't-they sexual tension dragged out by every show from 'Cheers' to 'The X-Files' (and, later, 'The Office'), Dave [Nelson (Dave Foley)] and Type A news producer Lisa Miller (Maura Tierney) sleep together in the second episode.”—Jessica Winter, “It Was '30 Rock' Meets 'WKRP in Cincinnati': The awkward charm of NBC's 'NewsRadio,'” Slate, December 23, 2008."And honestly, what would the movie have lost if every interview about the film hadn't crammed in some mention of Natalie [Portman]'s years of prep work? Absolutely nothing. Would she still have won the Oscar? Probably. It may have even helped audiences separate the actress from her character: after hearing about all her prep-work for Black Swan, it's hard not to imagine Nina as an extension of Natalie's own hyper-fastidious, Type-A persona. As Manhola Dargis of The New York Times wrote in her review of Black Swan when it came out:
Ms. Portman’s performance in Black Swan is more art than autobiography, and as a consequence more honest, but because it’s so demandingly physical the lines that usually divide actresses from their characters are also blurred. This is, after all, Ms. Portman’s own thin body on display, her jutting chest bones as sharply defined as a picket fence." —Drew Grant, "Natalie Portman vs Sarah Lane: Why 'Black Swan' performance wasn't about dancing, Her white swan was perfect...or was it? Ballet body double raises question of film's authenticity," Salon, March 28, 2011.Links Beyond eAlmanac
"Type A and Type B Personality Theory" article on Wikipedia.
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