Word: grouchings
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...accident. She chews gum loudly, eats candy in bed, and constantly chatters about what their life will be like after 50 years of marriage. Lila suffers from a fatal form of Midas disease--everything she touches turns to caricature. She has the knack of making a word like "grouch," her favorite epithet for the uncooperative Lenny, grate on the nerves like fingernails down a blackboard...
...first impressions many visitors get of a city comes from their cabbie, often the kind of grouch who would have honked at Lady Godiva for slowing up traffic. But when a recent visitor to Omaha joked with his driver about the city, he was amazed at the rebuttal: a glowing description of Omaha's waterfront development project along the Missouri River. "You should see the barge traffic going through here now," the driver boasted...
...Your review of Scrooge [Dec. 7] could have been written by the old grouch himself before transformation. It was a perfect family movie. Dickens himself would have enjoyed...
Equally Muppet-struck are Correspondent Mary Cronin and Researcher Patricia Beckert, who did the reporting for the story. Cronin set out to interview the puppeteer who manipulates Garbage-Can Resident Oscar the Grouch, but ended up conducting a canside dialogue with Oscar himself "In your off hours, do you ever talk to any kids?" she asked him. "Once I met a blind boy and he had heard the show," Oscar recounted "He felt my hair and I bit him. But I don't have any teeth so I can't hurt anyone. So we shook hands...
...creatures on the show, like Bert and Erniehumanoids with cartoon hands, three fingers and a thumb. Bert, who has one frowning eyebrow, chivvies Mutt-and-Jeff style with Ernie, a bulbous-nosed charmer whose favorite sport is sitting in the tub, rhapsodizing to his rubber duckie. Oscar the Grouch lives in a garbage can. There he fulminates, venting such mock aggressions that by comparison a child in a tantrum is Little Mary Sunshine...