Word: gripes
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...ventured into cyberspace and have now made the long march back. They bring tales of unmet expectations and warnings about a shimmering electronic mirage that seemed to promise intellectual, emotional and even financial sustenance but delivered nothing real. There's too much information and not enough substance, they gripe. Millions of people and no worthwhile communication. A solipsistic time sink that makes television watching seem like a social event...
...what exactly is Ms. Rose's gripe with the Hasty Pudding Theatricals? Is it really helpful to refer to us and our audience by such hurtful names as "the entitled," "the bourgeoisie," "the glitterati" and "the so-called cultural elite"? We think not. Still, while we sting from Ms. Rose's caustic, painfully accurate Leninist barbs, we must remind her that the majority of students in attendance were--like herself--seeing the show for free, as the guests of company members, each of whom was given at least one complimentary ticket to the show. Although Ms. Rose seems to imply...
...second thing to know is that he's not afraid to upset very large apple carts. Richard Nixon's reported gripe to his counsel John Dean about the too-vigilant "Jew boys" over in the sec was aimed partly at Sporkin, who was dogging the rogue financier Robert Vesco for an illegal $200,000 contribution to Nixon's re-election campaign. Eventually Nixon's Attorney General John Mitchell pressured William Casey, then sec chairman and Sporkin's boss, to delay an investigation into Vesco's contribution until after Election Day. When Casey tried to lean on Sporkin, the latter resisted...
...gripe is not with creative writing as such, just with creative writing courses. Creative writing courses do not belong in the academy--in our academy, anyhow...
...unlikely to pay it back. "Let's cut out this nonsense of trying to hoodwink the American people," Hollings told the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee, where Chairman Jesse Helms (R-N.C.) ignored GOP leaders more sympathetic to the plan by giving its opponents a daylong public forum to gripe. Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin touted the IMF loan -- largest in the organization's 51-year history -- as the international community's vote of confidence on Mexico's ability to recover. But in Congress, says TIME's Tumulty, "right now it's just a big mess. The president's version cannot...