Word: brat
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wonder Diana refused to pose for pictures on her recent skiing holiday with Prince Charles. She is constantly hounded by reporters who will print anything and who call her a "spoilt brat" and a "monster." These terms more accurately describe those who refuse to give the Princess a moment's peace...
Though Borg is a dulls enough fellow, in this company "dull" is appealing. Lendl is a chilly, self centered, condescending, meanspirited, arrogant man with a nice forehand. McEnroe is tennis' current, and quintessential, spoiled brat. Connors is a time-honored boor. With Borg now gone, there may be no one left to root for but the umpires...
...Jane Fonda's earlier off-to-Hanoi days, she was widely reviled as a combination of La Pasionaria and shrill brat. She has since become thought of as a fine actress. Her book on physical exercise is a bestseller, and she has a chain of body-fitness shops. She hasn't changed all that much; opinion has. In most American families, she is now regarded as the niece with strident and unpopular opinions that are accepted as part...
...both her profession and her form. Fonda is an ace saleswoman for her program because for a quarter of a century now she has reflected changing fashions in dress and image, politics and physique. In the '40s she was a movie star's brat, going chubby and haywire, while her father Henry played love scenes and went to war. In the late '50s Jane was a Vogue cover girl, fresh out of Vassar and mummified in heavy makeup. The early '60s saw her as Hollywood's all-American ingenue in Tall Story and Sunday...
Such a survivor. Such a complicated mass of neural wiring. Such a tangle of contradictions. His upbringing should have produced a temperamental brat. He peanut-buttered the neighbors' windows. As his endlessly indulgent mother Leah says, "His badness was so original that there weren't even books to tell you what to do." Steven Spielberg's precocious success might have created a pampered tyrant. But as Leah says, and as everyone who knows him agrees, "He doesn't have a blown-upness about...