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...weeks ago when the absence of baseball from our cultural landscape looked like it would have catastrophic implications for American society, a friend of mine devised the following solution to the strike: replace today's oversensitive, overpaid brat pack of players with the stars of yore...
...Harvard student and you're reading this, you're no doubt thinking that I'm an insufferable brat, hopelessly lost in the quagmire of Harvard's superiority complex...
Times Books recently announced that it will publish a book of socially conscious poetry by former President Jimmy Carter. Former brat-pack movie star Ally Sheedy has already published a book of socially conscious poetry. Two notable Americans. Two poems. Question: Whose is whose...
...early originality. He wanted people to think he'd been found like Moses in the bulrushes, a miracle child: Salvador, Saviour. In part this did correspond to the truth. As Ian Gibson's fascinating catalog essay on Dali's early life makes clear, little Salvador was a horribly spoiled brat. Cosseted, deferred to, aware that a tantrum could get him anything he wanted, he grew up with serious delusions of creative omnipotence -- which, as time went by, coexisted with equally serious problems of sexual impotence, caused (or so he said) by a book with lurid illustrations of the effects...
...journalism brat," Painton is the daughter of Fred Painton, who retired as a TIME senior writer in 1991. She was raised (bilingually) in Paris, where her family has lived for the past 32 years. She worked briefly as an editorial secretary at TIME after graduating from Mount Holyoke College, but wanted to earn her credentials outside the fold. This she did, impressively, with the Washington Post and the Atlanta Constitution. She carried on the family tradition by marrying another journalist, Tim Smith, now an editor at the Wall Street Journal. (Their latest collaboration: Isabel, three months, who joins 3 1/2-year-old...