Word: groans
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...traffic controllers in most of the world. But the ground controllers in Korolyov, near Moscow, simply didn't know much English, so Russian will dominate the air-to-ground chatter. And though Shepherd has been a diligent student of Russian, his first efforts aboard the station produced a groan from the translator assigned to help U.S. flight controllers...
...Waffle House between the Steak N Shake and Crabby Tom's Seafood, TIME magazine conducted a poll at least as scientific and useful as any of the others you get bombarded with daily. There were five diners in the room. Asked whom they like, there was a groan or two. Pressed to answer, four took Bush; one liked Gore. Asked, Why Gore? he said, "I'd like you to leave me alone...
...past six weeks we should have known that hourlies would make us groan, but we were not that wise you see. For while it was still warm and green, the lecture hall was not the scene and section no good place to be. But while we were fooling around, the add/drop clock was ticking down. Last Monday it did pass. Now we're stuck in that damn class. No choice now but to read that Marx, while social schedules become stark. Prepare to stay up way past dark, the day midterms arrive...
...verge of breaking their arms to pat themselves on the back for their moral superiority. Indeed, at times, I think that if I listen to one more candidate serenade the American public with another self-congratulatory song of self-righteousness that I will be moved to scream rather than groan. But this is for reasons that are different than you might think...
...Gormenghast, a four-part, $10 million adaptation of Mervyn Peake's lyrical fantasy trilogy (Saturdays, various times, beginning June 10). The lavish mini-series follows Steerpike (Jonathan Rhys Meyers), a charismatic kitchen boy who insinuates and murders his way to power within the tired, decaying House of Groan. Unlike many American fantasy minis, it's neither a ponderous classics lesson nor a sugarcoated trifle, but a grotesquely funny, vulgar and penetrating tale of class and demagogy with pointed meaning for Britons. "In Gormenghast, you have this rusty royal family--well, I don't need to say more about that...