Word: gripes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Invite 140 former employees of Drexel Burnham Lambert to appear on TV and you get a gripe-athon, right? Actually, it was more like the I Love Drexel show. On Donahue last week, dozens of mostly out-of-work Drexelites praised their bankrupt former employer and blamed its fall on everyone but themselves...
...professional theater, critics have a large, unbiased reading public. In college, where you may run computers while your roommate sings and dances, a jab at a production can alienate half the campus. That's a gripe. But then, maybe it's a good thing that critics have so many built-in enemies, because it forces them to be more careful in their attacks, and more considerate of other people's feelings...
Although Davis has since apologized to Social Studies concentrators in Winthrop House, insisting that his gripe was strictly with the University and the Social Studies committee, it is difficult to shrug off the suggestion that we are all somehow academically deficient...
Although Jeschke seemed on the verge of turning the article into an informative and realistic portrayal of the bus and the reasons that Wellesley students ride it, she immediately downshifts into a gripe session that she calls journalism...
Movie moguls crave good scripts, but they hate to pay for them. So goes the age-old gripe among disgruntled Hollywood screenwriters, but it took an outsider like columnist Art Buchwald to put the allegation to the test. In a star-studded courtroom drama, Buchwald cast a bright light on the machinations of Hollywood's power brokers. Last week a Los Angeles judge ruled that Paramount Pictures used Buchwald's script proposal as the basis for its 1988 blockbuster Coming to America and failed to pay him accordingly. Paramount plans to appeal...