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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...first “crisis” of the evening appeared in the opening short: a little boy’s squealing, floor-pounding, havoc-wreaking temper tantrum in a crowded supermarket. The advertisement portrayed the young father’s distress and embarrassment at this shrill demonstration, concluding with the advice, “use…condoms...

Author: By Eve Lebwohl, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Medium Obscures Message at Lost Film Festival | 2/11/2005 | See Source »

...headed towards the open part of the mall and I made eye contact with a hardheaded four-year-old whose mascara’d mother was stuffing his arms into a corduroy jacket. All it took was my empathetic gaze to finally break him down into a teary tantrum...

Author: By Ilana J. Sichel, | Title: Shoes, Soulmates and Savtas | 12/3/2004 | See Source »

...Krause knows something about loneliness. When he was young, his father battled depression and, later on, behaved like "an adult child," Krause says. "He was tantrum filled." When Krause was a high school sophomore, he began to deeply question "the world that was created inside [his] little house." Questions ran through him so fast he couldn't sleep, but he kept them bottled up to fit in. Eventually, Krause contemplated suicide. Therapy brought him back to balance. "Suicide is a temporary solution to a permanent problem," he says, upending the old cliche. "Your soul is not going anywhere...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Movies: Cue the Agonized Guy | 8/16/2004 | See Source »

...direct your own cartoon. First you pick characters, props and scenes from a list of more than 100not from just SpongeBob but from The Fairly OddParents, Jimmy Neutron and Rugrats too. Once you have selected actors, you click and drag them through motions, giving them actions (dance, throw a tantrum) or lines (funny quotes from the shows or even your own words). The actions are recorded on a timeline, so once you've directed SpongeBob to walk to the pizzeria, you can turn back the clock and have Patrick do the same. Modeled after more complex movie-making software, Toon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tech: Tooning In | 12/15/2003 | See Source »

Dubbed the Clown Prince of track and field, U.S. sprinter JON DRUMMOND threw a world-class tantrum in Paris last Sunday. He lay in his lane, refusing to budge, after he was disqualified from the 100-meter world-championship quarter-finals for a false start. Some hope officials will revisit their reliance on gate sensors. "If you so much as pass gas, you get a false start," says runner Kim Collins...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Performance of the Week | 9/8/2003 | See Source »

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