Word: grouching
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...easy to become a cultural grouch when you get into these studies," Putnam says reflecting on the pessimism some might perceive in his theories, "and by personality, I'm not a grouch," he says earnestly...
...like being a grouch, and I don't like being a grouch about TV, in telling people to stop watching TV. But the fact of the matter is: when you look at the data, it's just frightening...
DIED. JEFFREY MOSS, 56, Emmy-winning writer and composer who helped create Sesame Street's lovable fur balls, Coooookkiiieeeee! Monster and Oscar the Grouch; of cancer; in New York City...
Kermit the frog began life as muppet creatorJim Henson's aunt's coat. Grover did not start outas a blue monster and Oscar the Grouch wasoriginally orange. In fact, many "star" muppetsbegan as AMs (Any Muppet), new muppets created forbit parts that may later rise in popularity...
Obituaries of Travers--who died last week at 96, and whose real name was Helen Lyndon Goff--invariably (though respectfully) depicted her as a curmudgeonly grouch with a tendency to be "fierce" and "short" with her interlocutors, a woman who didn't "suffer fools gladly," a regular old crosspatch. They all recounted the rounded, well-traveled life she had led. (Before writing the first Mary Poppins book, she had been variously a dancer, a poet, a journalist, a theater critic and a Shakespearean actress.) Still, the implication that seemed to lurk behind the articles about Travers was that she hadn...