Word: complains
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Humphrey Bogart (Little, Brown; $12.50) is Nathaniel Benchley's "attempt to bring life to what is rapidly becoming a legend. The literal-minded," warns the author, "will complain that the quotes in this book cannot be accurate, and this is probably true." The problem is not one of accuracy but of familiarity. Benchley's frail chronicle offers the standard stories of Hollywood's old rebel, who pursued independence the way Sam Spade sought the Maltese falcon. Defining the difference between himself and most everybody else, Bogart used to claim that the world was about two drinks behind...
There were scattered protests; residents adjoining the site began to complain in the early '70s about architect I.M. Pei's colossal architectural mock-ups and the potential pollution spawned by tourists flocking to Cambridge to gawk at the museum's coconuts, busts and other memorabilia...
...Alliance's patients are not only healthy but happy. Elvira Axeen, 82, still goes out every Wednesday to make coffee for her Bible group. "I'm going to be busy as long as I can do it," says she. So are others. "As long as you can complain and be up and around, you're young," says 91-year-old Mrs. Ellen Wicklander as she stitches on a quilt...
...tranquilizers to keep them bovinely docile, others whose requests for help went unanswered and still others who were unfed or given the wrong foods and medication. They have also found many patients-like those at the now closed Towers Nursing Home in New York City-who were unwilling to complain for fear that they would be punished later by the attendants...
...journalists complain about censorship. True, some reporters tone down their dispatches in order to avoid giving offense, and parts of articles sometimes fail to reach the West. But newsmen have been able to write on the tensions between the northern and southern wings of the P.R.G. at the three-day victory celebrations in Saigon, on the reviving black market for scarce gasoline and on the rising wave of crime in Saigon. Indeed, one British correspondent, James Fenton, freely reported that "we Western reporters have been learning in the past few weeks that it is easy to strike up a conversation...