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...says, "there was no place in the world I wanted to be except in my bedroom, drawing pictures. I got so lost in it that if my mother wanted me to do something normal, take the garbage out or anything, I would literally have a temper tantrum." It continues today, in a way: "I have to have an outlet. Always. Or I start having bad dreams." He's not joking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Don't Laugh | 6/1/1998 | See Source »

...agenda, but probably not the one the man suspected. As Gingrich crisscrosses the country selling Lessons Learned the Hard Way, a contrite new book about his tumultuous first three years as Speaker of the House, he is telling audiences and readers alike that he has metamorphosed from the tantrum-prone revolutionary of 1995 into a sober leader who has finally figured out how to run Congress. And by dropping into bookstores in New Hampshire last week and Iowa this week (both early-primary states), he is hinting strongly at a run for the White House. But what Gingrich is really...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Newt's Secret Plan: To Stay Right Where He Is | 4/20/1998 | See Source »

...grief who finds a surrogate son in Phillipe, and not always convincingly. His voice seems to express only one consistent emotion: suppressed rage. Whatever he says, he says so deliberately that it seems that he is attempting to keep himself from having, at the very least, a violent tantrum. The fact that his facial expressions often seem to suggest the psychotic killer rather than the mourning father does not help, nor does the fact that he appears to be in the same "vacation mode" as everybody else in the cast...

Author: By Carmen J. Iglesias, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: `Mask' Offers Cliched Tale of Vacationing Cast | 3/20/1998 | See Source »

...response was a four goal tantrum by the Crimson newcomers in their first legitimate collegiate game...

Author: By Chris W. Mcevoy, | Title: JV W. Hockey Wins First--Ever | 2/6/1998 | See Source »

DIED. RUSS MEYER, 74, hot-tempered pitcher for the Brooklyn Dodgers and other teams; of heart failure; in Oglesby, Ill. Over the course of 13 seasons, Meyers pitched in three World Series, but his most memorable performance was a dugout tantrum in 1953 that justified his moniker, "the Mad Monk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Dec. 1, 1997 | 12/1/1997 | See Source »

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