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...titillating voice told of "cinemactresses," or "great and good friends" (TIME code for lovers) or other uber-brat coinages. When Wallis Warfield Simpson, having lured Edward VIII from the throne of England, was named TIME's Woman of the Year for 1936--a year in which Hitler, Stalin, Mussolini and Mao were all on the march and F.D.R. was elected in a landslide to a second term--TIME the titillator delivered this quote: "'My, my!' sighed [Argentine] Ambassador [Felipe] Espil to swank U.S. friends last summer, 'who would ever have dreamed that our Little Wallis would ever be where...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A History: The Time Of Our Lives | 3/9/1998 | See Source »

...time on personal calls. A Pentagon acquaintance says Lewinsky rarely talked politics, chatting instead about her father and his wealth; she came off as flighty and flirty, "a rich Beverly Hills teen and all the insouciance that suggests." Other Pentagon officials said she was "an opportunist" and a "spoiled brat" who took advantage of her political connections. "She was an attractive girl," says a Pentagon source, "but a girl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Clinton's Crisis: MONICA LEWINSKY: The Days Of Her Life | 2/2/1998 | See Source »

...work. Work was her playtime. I could see there was a really mature soul in there." Casting directors noticed the same thing: Helen had not a sexual but an emotional, intellectual precocity. "I would cry," she notes, "because I didn't get the girlfriend or Brat Pack parts. People said, 'She seems too mature, too knowing.' Well, what could I do about that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: MAD ABOUT HER | 12/15/1997 | See Source »

...recently received a six-month sentence for violating parole on his drug conviction, Slater added: "We both suffer from a disease that is like a tornado ... it tells you you don't have a problem, so you spend your life blaming everyone else." The only question is - which '80s Brat Pack star will be hit next...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Price of Celebrity | 12/15/1997 | See Source »

Daughter of the high school physics teacher and a self-identified faculty brat, ("In other words, no dates," she says) Mayer turned an invitation by one of her four older siblings to try field hockey into a five-year stint playing goalie for the high school team...

Author: By Molly Hennessy-fiske, | Title: Mayer Leaves Her Field Of Dreams | 10/10/1997 | See Source »

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