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Hong Kong International Airport • really quite spectacular tantrum is thrown at by woman who missed her flight to San Francisco...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Paul Slansky's Weekly Index of the News | 2/20/2009 | See Source »

...actress playing April phoned you, you'd leave your dinner to go cold and take that call for two hours in the other room! I know you would because I saw you do it with Jake Gyllenhaal!' " she says, recalling Jarhead and laughing as she re-creates her mini-tantrum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Best Actress: Kate Winslet's Moment | 2/19/2009 | See Source »

...Undergrads traditionally respond with a passive-aggressive temper tantrum that befits the world’s most gifted children. Amid the moans and groans and the predictable panic, they end up looking like that guy from the first Austin Powers movie who gets run over by a slow-moving steamroller—screaming helplessly in terror before being squashed...

Author: By Adam Goldenberg | Title: Boo F—ing Hoo | 11/21/2008 | See Source »

Robbins, Tim •absence of name of on voting rolls triggers polling place tantrum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Paul Slansky's Weekly Index of the News | 11/7/2008 | See Source »

...Between 1832 and the Civil War, Uncle Sam was portrayed in everything from pajamas to eveningwear. He was young, old, fat and thin. At one point he was even a tantrum-throwing toddler. It wasn't until 1856 that Uncle Sam grew his first beard, which he would alternately gain and lose until Abraham Lincoln was elected President four years later. Through Lincoln, the Union became associated with the image of a tall, lanky man with a beard - an image that transferred, and stuck, to Uncle Sam forever after...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Uncle Sam | 11/4/2008 | See Source »

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