Word: petulante
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As is usual with Rohmer's films, the success of "A Tale of Springtime" rests squarely on the actors' shoulders. Teyssedre deliver, the best performance in the movie, evolving from the sober young teacher of the beginning to a mature and self possessed woman. Teyssedre makes Jeanne an intensely likable...
3. Don't whine. Perot had never before been exposed to the kind of scrutiny that comes with a presidential campaign. By repeatedly charging, without evidence, that Republican dirty tricksters were hatching foul plots against him, he diverted attention from the issues he claimed to want to discuss. His bizarre...
It's an odd practice, this naming of hurricanes. Yet anthropomorphizing nature's brutal forces somehow seems to help people cope with the otherwise incomprehensible devastation wreaked by these storms. So it was with Andrew, a ^ simple name for people to curse, fear, blame and remember. Andrew proved a most...
Still, small cracks are showing in the President's facade. Confidants say he privately sounds "wounded" by a public that takes for granted his leadership in the Gulf War and his prudent oversight of communism's collapse. Sometimes this petulant attitude slips out in public, as when Bush recently observed...
Of the many reasons posited for Perot's decision, the most laughable was Perot's "conclusion" that his continuation in the race would throw the election into the House of Representatives, thereby depriving the next President of the time required to prepare for office. Oblivious to the stunned cries of...