Word: bewailed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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WITH THE GREAT Amerika brouhaha exploding over our heads weeks before the show itself begins, the American media will once again don hairshirts and bewail either the excess or absence of the proper political sensitivities in our art forms. Both contentions are nonsense, as politics is almost always irrelevant to the American public's perception of the arts...
Williamson never falls into the trendy confusion with modern life that so many current poets bewail. Sometimes he cuts straight through characters and their relationships with a calm, deliberate train of thought. The comical "If, On Your First Love's Wedding Day" races through a soap-opera study of a particularly confusing and blue hour. Williamson seems cheerfully to throw up his hands at the end. "What do you say? You say, My first love got married today, if you're drunk enough," Indeed...
Surfeited with some 100 million surplus tons of grain, U.S. farmers bewail the missed opportunities. "It's a little like spitting in the ocean," complains Robert Delano, president of the American Farm Bureau Federation. "We have simply invited the Soviet Union to shop elsewhere to fill in its shortages." Says Republican Senator Charles Grassley of Iowa: "This extension is great news for Argentine, Australian, Canadian and European farmers...