Word: tantruming
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...Action Hero? Columbia executives, crazed with anxiety in their corporate bunker, were peeved when the Los Angeles Times published a free-lance writer's lighthearted, thinly sourced account of a preview screening that the studio plausibly insists never occurred. But did they have to throw an embarrassing, no-win tantrum? Unless the newspaper agreed to keep the reporter from mentioning Columbia Pictures ever again, the studio said it would have nothing to do with anybody from the Times. "It's like Nixon in the last days of Watergate," says a Columbia employee. As Nixon learned, you can't beat...
Arthur Ashe left the tantrum tennis to Ilie Nastase, Jimmy Connors and John McEnroe and let his silvery racket heap the abuse. The United States Tennis Association ranked him among its top 10 players seven times during the 1970s. He was No. 1 in 1975 when he beat Connors at Wimbledon, and fifth in 1979 when he had his first heart attack and underwent quadruple-bypass surgery...
They don't like how a player can act as a role model for children, refusing to throw a tantrum in the direction of the umpire for every called strike or in the direction of the scorer for an error with which you don't think you should be charged. Ripken's most high-profilead campaign? Cal drinking milk...
Vonnie Roemer adds to the list of well-played comic types as a tantrum-prone schoolgirl and as a she-male dominatrix. David McMahon, as Gratiana, pulls off a lurid parody of the indolent housewife, and so it goes...
...roles as sex objects. No longer playful, the women now strut coolly about the stage in their tight velveteen dresses and red spike heels. The sexy entourage is periodically interrupted, however, by a woman who stumbles in her shoes, tugs at her dress, or collapses into a flailing tantrum. The women seem torn between the power of their sexual identity and the pain they must endure to maintain...