Word: tantruming
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...mule, with a disposition that belies her name. One evening the pair run into a freight train and wind up on the Glory Road to the Pearly Gates. Zemach's mural-like paintings create a midnight world of green pastures, good food and celestial jazz. After the requisite tantrum, even Honeybunch sees the light: the brilliance of the moon and all the stars that Jake hangs up every night for even the poorest sharecroppers-and the smallest readers-to enjoy...
Hendrik is a minor actor correctly convinced that he is harboring a major talent-and desperate to the edge of hysteria to escape the provincial stages of his early years. He is discovered in his dressing room throwing a tantrum, while outside, in the theater, someone else is happily drowning in the applause he pathetically needs and will do anything to get. Do the Communists, with their workers' theaters and cabarets, offer him showcases? Very well, he will be a Communist. Does a rather distant and chilly woman offer him social advancement and a way into Berlin...
...apparent domestic bliss (illustrated annoyingly with giddy romps on the beach to the strains of Billy Joel), the affair begins to take on an air of "Star is Born" fatality. Tory, at first the more stable of the two, has a drunken tantrum at a party when Chris dances with a man. Things get tenser as it becomes likely that the pair, now evenly matched, will have to compete against each other to go to the Olympics, a prospect they have feared since their first night, when they got stoned, watched TV, arm-wrestled steamily before hopping into...
...would pose as the vastly experienced, endlessly patient statesman, determined to keep talking peace in the face of this latest temper tantrum by his American opposite number. Haig gave him just that opportunity...
...Incensed by the Indians performing their sacred dances for the pleasure of the company. I awrence suddenly starts breaking dishes. While it is surely understandable that he does "not want to be part of a literary zoo," there is no reason he should so violently erupt into a temper-tantrum a twelve-year-old would be ashamed to call his own. Lawrence's lack of character development alternated with explosive, melodramatic scenes, make him seem more a psychopath than an artist...