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...Some children get into a pattern of turning every request into a debate...Instead of trying to one-up the child with a better argument, the parent simply walks away." (Wimpy Parents: From Toddler to Teen--How NOT to Raise a Brat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: Dec. 7, 1998 | 12/7/1998 | See Source »

...songs. Some of the new songs are unexceptional and some are excellent; this is more or less the way it's been since 1972. In "Nineteen in Naples," Richman ruefully examines his youthful anger ("I didn't like this and I didn't like that/I was such a little brat"), but the song is musically unimpressive. The titular "I'm So Confused" makes better use of the irritating synthesizers than most other songs on the album. Producer Ric Ocasek has stuck the distracting synths in everywhere, apparently longing for his days in the Cars with ex-Modern Lovers drummer Jerry...

Author: By Ben Mckean, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Boston Big-Shot Returns to Bean-Town | 11/13/1998 | See Source »

...show developed. If I was watching TV and she happened to be on, it made my day." Pollack is quick to add, "This was in sixth grade." (He has not, therefore, seen Milano's breakthrough performance in 1994's lesbian vampire blockbuster, "The Nosferatu Diaries.") In the movies, the Brat Pack was summarily revered for bespeaking this generation's collective adolescence. "I loved Molly Ringwald," gushes an anonymous Leverett House senior, "because she always...

Author: By Terry E-E Chang, | Title: Idol Hands Do the Devil's Work | 11/12/1998 | See Source »

...both finally given the well-deserved chance to shine after multiple chorus roles in previous A.R.T. productions. Chiorini gives Matt just the right amount of nervous intellectualism, endearing earnesty and Oedipal anxiety, and Fox-Long utilizes multiple effective tactics to move her character back and forth between pouting brat, self-conscious bookworm and self-sacrificial saint...

Author: By Erin E. Billings, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: In `Bette and Boo,' Everything's Relative | 10/23/1998 | See Source »

...arrived early, before the Lehigh team bus, even, to fire up a grill, break out the chips and toss a pigskin at a tailgate. A brat, two burgers and several dropped fly patterns later, I made my way into Harvard Stadium, just as the sun took the bite out of the brisk October...

Author: By Zachary T. Ball, | Title: Ball Four | 10/5/1998 | See Source »

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