Word: brat
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Dining Room's versatile and polished cast of four women and four men take on a total of more than 50 characters. Each actor covers his share of WASP territory--each one seems to play a cute, babbling brat at least once, and there are enough overbearing octogenarians and strait-laced domestics to give everyone a chance to age. Director Onbargi and his cast never allow the quick switches to render the evening's entertainment a mere collection of acting exercises. Aside from its location in the Ex, there's nothing experimental about this Dining Room...
EISENSTADT IS particularly uncomfortable with being grouped in the literary brat pack that includes Ellis, Tama Janowitz, Jay McInerney and others. "I've gotten a lot of vicious reviews and I of course hate it," she says. "But you end up being criticized for what collectively is wrong with the books. Whereas there are things wrong with my book, of course, but they don't end up saying that because they're not looking at the individual book...
...Confi-Guide's red-baiting attack on me and my course on the Caribbean goes beyond all acceptable limits of journalistic behavior, including the most tongue-in-cheek forms of brat-journalism...
...Viet Nam during a White House meeting in front of his banking boss and a Cabinet officer. During the Reagan years, according to another account, Reed has driven up to the same prestigious Pennsylvania Avenue address in a humble white Toyota compact. Now the whiz kid once dubbed "the Brat" is steering Citicorp on a radically different course from the one established by his expansion-minded predecessor, Walter Wriston...
...predecessor, First National City Bank. Within five years, Reed found himself head of the bank's notoriously disorganized back-office operations, which were plagued by backlogs of check-processing paperwork. Reed cleared up the mess by starting work before dawn, thereby making a good start at earning his "brat" moniker. Some fellow workers felt he was abrasive in whipping the unit into shape...