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...agent to give us an explanation, but so far we haven't had an answer. He has behaved like a spoiled child." Confirming that observation was no less an authority than Tina Turner, who last week recalled for Mike Wallace how John threw a temper tantrum after she tried to correct his arrangement of Proud Mary at VH1's Divas '99 show. "He's just very sensitive," said Turner. "Very, very sensitive." Or just very in touch with his inner child...
...price: living in front of cameras that catch their every tantrum, embarrassment and moral lapse. TV and media critics are conditioned to believe that once people start entertaining themselves by spying on others, we are just scant moments away from grandma porn and ABC's Monday Night Stoning. (You could base a drinking game on how often the Colosseum, Network and Orwell come up in discussions of VTV.) Stuart Fischoff, professor of media psychology at California State University, Los Angeles, cheerfully admits to enjoying Survivor but adds, "The downside that does concern me is the need to get more excessive...
Recent incidents, such as the projectile-throwing tantrum at the Yankees-Red Sox game at Fenway Park and the abuse of European golfers at the Ryder Cup in Brookline, Mass., suggest an answer: legal hooliganism. Teams will sponsor cells of well-trained, remorseless thugs ready at any moment to storm the field and waylay players. Athletes will be expected to hone those skills necessary to contend with this exciting new variable...
...many of us stuck with cascading cans of soup and a two-year-old's tantrum in Aisle 6? The fact is, online supermarket shopping is in its infancy, and most of the $440 billion we spend annually filling the pantry goes to traditional grocers. Naturally, they are less than enthusiastic about giving that business up. "We're going to fight for every food dollar," says Michael Sansolo of the Food Marketing Institute, which represents the grocery establishment...
...foot (that would be a Pidgey) to 28 ft. (that's an Onix) and in weight from 2 lbs. (Diglett) to 1,914 lbs. (Snorlax). Their fighting skills are as feral as ramming (that's Rhydon), as yucky as a tongue wrap (Lickitung--ugh!) or as childish as a tantrum (Primeape). There are more than 150 Pokemon species, and almost any child of 12 or younger, wired with a child's propensity for order, can recite a substantial lineup, complete with arcane attributes and an individual monster's ability to evolve into higher forms. Welcome to the new Mesozoic...