Word: tantruming
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...Rose, lead screamer for Guns N' Roses, worries about his image -- the visual one, anyway. Concert promoters in Missouri are suing him for throwing a tantrum and sparking a riot after he spotted a fan videotaping him. A week later at a concert for 20,000 fans,Rose showed up two hours late...
...Tantrum of the Week: Here's to DartmouthCoach Paul Cormier for once again proving that thequickest way for a coach to end his team's badspell is to throw a tantrum, specifically in frontof the nearest referee...
...told in the early 1980s that she could not be a supervisor in an investigative division because it was "too tough a job for a woman." But she rejected the idea of filing a job- bias complaint. "My sense was that if I were to throw a tantrum," she explains, "it probably wouldn't be an effective strategy. Catching flies with honey was a better approach...
...Mottola, according to industry speculation, though no successor has been named. Another possible catalyst for Yetnikoff's resignation is his depiction in Fredric Dannen's new best seller, Hit Men, a graphic portrayal of the music industry's seamy underside. In the book, Yetnikoff comes off as a crude, tantrum-throwing and philandering egomaniac. "He's a brilliant man with a strong self-destructive streak," contends Dannen. Says David Braun, a top music lawyer in Los Angeles: "Walter got lost in the fantasy of his job, his power and his ability to control a huge part of the pop culture...
...intolerant of those who voice unpopular or controversial views. Members of the Mexican-American student group sometimes stop talking to dissenters and instead talk about them in widespread innuendo. As surely as if it were coming from a group of children on a playground, this sort of collective tantrum is intended to show that the organization will "play no more" with those who rock the communal boat. It also aims to make campus life uncomfortable for others who are content with the racial status...