Word: griping
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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...
Purists could gripe about the field's springy artificial turf, which produced unpredictable bounces, carried through-passes out of bounds and left players on both sides with painful rug burns...
...prodigal son hesitantly calls his father from a phone booth in the rain. He wants to come home. Ecstatic Dad rings up his other son to pass on the good news. But Son No. 2 isn't too happy and calls up Mom to gripe. Mom suggests, "Call him." What's going on? Will the next phone call explain the family feud...
...created consumer benefits as well as disadvantages. The easing of the fare wars has enabled major airlines to make a profit, which in turn has fostered better service. The Department of Transportation's latest monthly report on airline performance indicates that fewer consumers are writing to the Government to gripe about problems like lost or damaged baggage. Only 933 complaints were registered last month, down from 2,100 a year earlier...