Word: grouching
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...January 6, approximately 30 felt-tip pen-armed students decorated the walls of a third-floor--hallway with colorful depictions of such unusual creatures as ants, mushrooms, a zebra, Oscar the Grouch, an octopus, God, and resident tutor Thomas I. Barkin...
...sunset. But Mimi, the consumptive Parisian seamstress, has been a dying duck since the opera's first performance in 1896, and her fog-witted lover Rodolfo, the poet, has moped melodiously for the same stretch. A certain amount of dust has gathered. Only the fustiest of traditionalists would grouch at the news that Joseph Papp's musical irregulars from the New York Shakespeare Festival have decided to give Boheme an airing...
...license plates on his silver Cadillac bear the word GRINCH. But no one in his neighborhood of La Jolla, Calif., is fooled. The driver is no grouch. He is Theodor Geisel, better known by his flowing pseudonymous signature Dr. Seuss. He celebrated turning 80 last week by turning out his 42nd children's story, The Butter Battle Book (Random House; 48 pages; $6.95). An arms-race "preachment," as he calls it, the tale features no grinches, just a confrontational competition between average, everyday Yooks and Zooks who are suspicious of each other because the former prefer eating bread with...
...most Miamians know, it would be a mistake to dismiss McMullan simply as the town grouch. Renowned though he is for his cantankerousness, McMullan maintains the charm, the manner and the vocabulary of a gentleman, even as now, in retirement, he drives to break 80 on the golf course and master his new IBM Personal Computer, a staff going-away gift. With a similar determination to preserve integrity in private and public, he insisted that the suicide in 1976 of his daughter, a psychiatric nurse, be fully reported in the Herald. Both the paper's staff and knowledgeable professional...
...turn them subtly against the audience's expectations. Lianna (Linda Griffiths) has a sweet moonface and blue eyes that always look as if they have just left off crying. She has every reason to be sad: her husband, who teaches film at the local college, is an adulterous grouch; her two children do not offer quite enough challenge; her life is in limbo. So she tumbles into a lesbian affair with her night-school professor, Ruth (Jane Hallaren), to whom fond Lianna is the adoring, precocious student. Is Lianna in love or just restless? Does the affair represent...