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Then Hanna-Barbera inserted a "cute"" sidekick, a yappy little brat of a nephew.

Within the vanguard members of that generation, no one had a less auspicious start than Alexander Hamilton, whom Adams called "a bastard brat of a Scotch pedlar".

In this film, Richard Pryor plays a poor black dude who is bought by a rich white dude to act as a toy for his spoilt brat of a kid.

The mother and father (Mary Nash and John Halliday) manage to be quite human throughout, and, of course, that delightful creation from the play, that brat of a child sister (Virginia Weidler), is given full scope, to the relish of all.

The "bastard brat of a Scotch pedlar," in John Adams's vinegary phrase, infuriated each of America's founders at various points as he helped mastermind the passage of the Constitution, the creation of a robust central government and the simultaneous emergence of a commercial economy.

The car motif reoccurs in Ten (2002), which consists of 10 long takes in close-up of a woman navigating through the streets of Tehran, during which she has conversations with various women passengers, including a prostitute, and her brat of a son.

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Ms. Fallon, a theater brat courtesy of "a recessive gene" from socialist grandparents who worked at Vassar's experimental theater program with John Houseman and Orson Welles, has no time for postpartum depression.

Click here to view As if in response to Denby and Hoberman's questions, Schrader has made a movie for next-to-nothing ($250k) about the making, by Deen's trust-fund brat Christian, of a movie that's barely getting made and which is, in fact, more bait for sexual prey than an entity with script, director, locations or cast.

He once was a brat of Olympic proportions but has mellowed to the point of venerable senior citizenship, an inspirational old warhorse who will leave us after this campaign with a host of memories, the majority of them uplifting.

The spoiled brat of the welterweight pack, Koscheck is, nonetheless, an engaging and eminently watchable character.

He gave an example of the intrusion of the Hearsts on his own business: "I was forced to suppress a column blasting Pulitzer Prize procedures because after Junior and his Baby Sitters" — Frank Conniff and Kingsbury Smith — "interviewed Khrushchev, Junior immediately set up the petulant howl of a spoiled brat for a Pulitzer award".

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