Word: brat
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...book, "Little Lulu" draws you into a world that remains as funny and fresh as it was fifty years ago. The main characters, Lulu, a highly spirited girl who frequently bests the "fellers" and their boys-only club, Tubby, the endlessly pratfalling, rotund would-be detective, and Alvin the brat who demands that Lulu tell him stories, form a comedic ensemble cast matched only by the likes of the Peanuts gang...
Cleveland, shivering in her crimson hoodie and jeans, shoots him a look, but she’s smiling. An army brat most recently of Waynesville, Mo., Cleveland says her father’s position in the military isn’t the most important factor for her politically...
...Africa, married a Senator who was also heir to the Heinz-condiment fortune, then saw her life shattered when he died in a 1991 plane crash. Her second marriage, in 1995, was to another Senator named John--this one aiming for the White House. Edwards, a Navy brat, is an accomplished bankruptcy lawyer who married her law school classmate before he made millions dazzling juries across North Carolina. Their 16-year-old son's 1996 death in an auto accident sent them in other directions: him, into a meteoric rise in politics; her, into a second round of motherhood, having...
...Navy brat who moved often and spent nine years in Japan, Elizabeth Anania majored in English at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and was halfway through a Ph.D. program in American literature when she decided to trade in Henry James' The Ambassadors for Black's Law Dictionary. It was at law school, in her civil-procedure class in 1974, that she met John Edwards, a country boy four years her junior. He says he found her "smarter and more sophisticated than I'd ever be." On their first date, he took her to hear a band...
...trend doesn’t stop with pre-packaged pop singers. After fading away for a few years, the precocious brat rockers of Blink-182 have also returned to heavy airplay on radio and MTV. Despite several years of legal squabbling and failed solo efforts, the Backstreet Boys—no joke—are reportedly heading to the studio to record another album. The album may flop worse than Ruben Studdard attempting a swan dive, but if it doesn’t, you read about it here first. More surprising and significant is the return of a number...