Word: petulante
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Reckoning that no publicity is bad publicity, Guccione and Brass will probably continue trading blows with Vidal until the film is released next fall. "Gore's single greatest regret in life is that he wasn't born a woman," says Guccione. "As a result, he becomes bitchy and...
But hopes were soon dashed by the performance of the Shostakovich Symphony No. 1 in F minor, Op. 10, which followed. The Shostakovich, composed in 1926, is enormously demanding, both because its ambience is unpredictable and puckishly cynical, and because all the orchestral parts are so exposed. Clearly, from a...
Carter supporter Daniel B. Aaron, professor of English and American Literature, said yesterday he has "a higher opinion of Carter than many." Although somewhat disenchanted by Carter's campaign tactics, Aaron said that the alternative would be "unthinkable." Aaron characterised former Senator Eugene McCarthy's third-party candidacy as "petulant...
Off Long Island, the hard-driven anemometer on the Vanderbilt yacht Vara registered, a windspeed of 91 m.p.h. before it self-destructed. The bell of Sag Harbor's Old Whalers' Church tolled crazily until one last lifting gust, like a petulant child with a toy, tore the steeple...
Good Man. As soon as Moynihan quit, Ronald Reagan started making him a campaign issue. Isn't it too bad, Reagan told an audience in southern Florida, that the Administration could not keep such a good man? "He was the first ambassador saying a lot of things to those...