Word: brat
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...self-styled army brat who lived in a different house each year of her life until settling at the age of thirteen in San Francisco, Watt first conducted during high school when the conductor of her county orchestra--the Marin County Youth Orchestra--offered to give her lessons. Soon the conductor, Hugo Renaldi, was letting her conduct the orchestra occasionally, as well as allowing her to lead Saturday-morning children's concerts...
...Beast' is only the beginning of a year that many cadets say they'd like to forget. Army brat Bill Fullerton went to Vanderbilt for a year and a half but found himself drifting and dropped out. He sold Kirby vacuum cleaners for six months before coming to the Point. "There wasn't a day that went by for the first year that I didn't think about leaving...
...authors drag Morrison along from his military-brat childhood to his frenetic rambling around the Los Angeles music scene of the '60s, where he knew how to hold center stage, even lying on his back. Hopkins and Sugerman relate how Morrison, spread out on the studio floor, prepared for the first Doors recording session by chanting a primal litany of incest and patricide. The authors provide little evidence that Morrison grew much in the five years following this session, not emotionally, certainly not aesthetically...
...kids from California and Long Island who regularly whup you in front of Mom and Dad? The experience did, however, teach me a lot about who I often perform for and why it hurts so much to lose. And I got to see Jimmy Arias playing like the little brat he once was. You will probably see him heave his racquet someday too--but only in joy, after hitting a scorching passing shot for game, set and match...
Thankfully, the blue-blood code dominating tennis is slowly fading. "Rude" players are still contemptuously labelled brattish, but there are many more brats than before--as well there should be, if being a brat means pointing out when the officials are fouling up great and exciting matches with incompetence. It is even all right, it seems to me, to get mad at an opponent; in other sports, this is called "psyching up" and encouraged, but in tennis it is called ungentlemanly. Those Americans who realize that a backboard is but three feet wide will never love the sport as long...