Word: brat
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...presents himself as hopelessly mendacious, God's own holy spoiled brat. Nobody expresses that blind human appetite for having everything at the same time as well as Kafka: "I strive to know the entire human and animal community, to recognize their fundamental preferences, desires, and moral ideals, to reduce them to simple rules, and as quickly as possible to adopt these rules so as to be pleasing to everyone ... to become so pleasing that in the end I might openly act out my inherent baseness before the eyes of the world without forfeiting its love-the only sinner...
...daughter of a retired Army general, Quinn's peripatetic "Army-brat" life caused her to attend 22 schools before she graduated from Smith College in 1963. She intended to be "a famous movie star" but gave it up after only six weeks of trying to be an actress in New York. Over the next few years, she worked as a go-go girl, a public relations agent for a Coney Island animal husbandry exhibit, and social secretary to the Algerian Ambassador in Washington. The story of her subsequent hiring by the Washington Post may contain a moral for those...
...motives for the way they live are never developed or explained. At film's beginning, Paul, the American expatriate, is just a ravaged romantic, and at the end he is a dead one. Jeanne, a babied product of the Parisian middle-class, is throughout nothing more than a volatile brat with a voluptuous body. As their sexual partnership, founded on a chance encounter in a vacant apartment, begins to turn to love, even the emotional tension becomes attenuated -- the only question, will the girl accept Paul's cynical attitudes towards sex and the world in general as well...
...Crest toothpaste, for the commercial in which an arrogant brat interrupts his father, busy at work, to announce that because of Crest he has fewer cavities...
Mann Act. Dita grew up as an Army brat, moving from base to base. She adored her father, who treated her like a boy, made her learn to ride almost as soon as she could walk. "Every morning at 5:30, the goddam horses were at the back door," she recalls of a stay in the Panama Canal Zone. She was on a raft there once, swimming with her father, when a "goddam crocodile was skulking under the raft." He ordered her to swim for shore anyway...