Word: petulante
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Later the networks brought the minicam to the locker room. Athletes with enviable physiques were suddenly "up close and personal." They proved neither as intimidating nor as unmatchable as they seemed from a distance. If petulant Jimmy Connors could do it, playing tennis had possibilities for Everyman. In 1972 television...
Rarely is there the aura of the locker room, and the volume's only sense of life comes when the players speak, all too rarely, in their own voices. Between the testimonies are pages of ponderous speculations and familiar psychological and political theorizing. "Many of the blacks had never...
In your obituary of William Loeb, the New Hampshire publisher [Sept. 28], you used the adjectives splenetic, petulant, scurrilous, infuriating and notorious to describe the man and his methods. You passed over the one word that perhaps describes him best: vicious.
Every four years, like a recurring nightmare, the cherubic visage and satanic fulminations of William Loeb, cantankerous, ultraconservative publisher of the Manchester, N.H., Union Leader, would turn up on the front pages of newspapers across the country. As aspiring Presidents trooped up to New Hampshire for the nation's...
"It will be recalled from our first episode, Where's Charlie?, that the Prince took several nasty spills on the course about this time, and many of his subjects, who were aware that two previous Kings had died after horseback catastrophes, fretted about his wellbeing. Charles' attempts to...