Word: complaints
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...from conversations taped by microphones hidden throughout the hospital. Although intending to conduct an investigation into his wife's disappearance, the salesman is told that he must instead investigate himself. Without challenging orders, he concludes that this may simply be a more tactful and precise way of filing a complaint--and so he justifies his task. The narrator's tacit acceptance of what strikes the reader as illogical and absurd--investigating himself because of his wife's mysterious disappearance--accustoms the reader to the eerie, macabre atmosphere that persists throughout the entire novel...
...eager to spare his writing any Jewish self-pity. His stories are icy, even mean, much to his parents' chagrin. Nathan's battle with his family over a story they deem insulting to Jews must echo a similar fight Roth himself waged with his relatives over Portnoy's Complaint...
...Carter forces in Dade County. She is a veteran of the 1976 Carter presidential campaign and works out of her own public relations agency in Miami. Said she: "Mike is a good organizer, but we have most of the party organization, and we are outmaneuvering him." Her chief complaint is that Mike took a list of 3,000 activist party people with him when he joined the Kennedy side and refuses to share it with her. Griped Nancy: "We need those badly. We're denied access." To which Mike and the other Kennedy people replied in effect: "Hogwash...
...bourgeois rightists," Ye said, "the mistake was made of broadening the scope of the struggle." It was a euphemistic but clear reference to the imprisonment of more than 100,000 of Mao's opponents who were not released until after his death in 1976. Ye had a similar complaint about the 1958-60 Great Leap Forward that left China's economy in a shambles. Said Ye: "We made the mistake of making arbitrary decisions, being boastful and stirring up a 'Communist storm.' " Seated on the dais behind Ye were many officials who had fallen afoul...
...ride outside of Houston. The Chicken Ranch, as it was known to the local citizens, was closed due to the efforts or Marvin Zindler of Houston's Channel 13 Eyewitness News. He operated, and continues to operate, a consumer hotline, investigating complainsts called in by viewers. One such complaint was the existence of the Chicken Ranch. Mr. Zindler is famous for his incredibly theatrical news reports, and he became extremely unpopular with the residents of Lagrange. With this in mind, I find it difficult to understand how Mr. Grafstein can label Melvin P. Thorpe an "overworked stereotype." Further, the comparison...