Word: complained
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...witless complain that humor is impossible to write in an age when headlines are more absurd than the products of imagination. Richler's contemporary entries offer hilarious refutation. Excerpts from Stanley Elkin's The Dick Gibson Show and Philip Roth's Portnoy's Complaint belong on the shelf with Rabelais and Swift. Woody Allen's The Kugelmass Episode stands as a classic. In it, a professor of humanities is propelled backward in time to the arms of Madame Bovary and the pages of a remedial Spanish textbook: "He was running for his life over...
Students interviewed yesterday about the inspection responded with comments ranging from "They suck!" to "Why should we complain? We live like kings...
Some critics complain that the series offers no analysis and so does not give the subject matter a proper structure and perspective. But when tackling difficult moral questions on film (Stanley Kramer's Judgement at Nuremberg) letting the audience draw their own conclusions may just be the best device...
...regime is not altogether popular with the staff. Some Monitor reporters complain that the resources being spent on redesign and business promotion are diverted from more substantial news coverage. Fanning has also offended some veterans by diminishing the roles of elderly Monitor stars, including Godfrey Sperling Jr., 68, who was shifted from Washington bureau chief to columnist. More fundamental, some staff members fret that the paper's highbrow tone may be lowered. In the cultural section, for example, Fanning plans to give added space and emphasis to leisure and recreation...
...swapping party after taking his wife home. Her subdued reaction con-ains the author's gloomy assessment of the situation, if not of the entire age of affluence and permissiveness. "The outer suburb was what it was, so was the shell of middle age; she didn't complain because it would be silly to complain when you were fed and clothed and comfortable, when your children were cared for and warm, when you were loved and respected...