Word: kvetching
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...admits I am a personal favorite. We keep everyone off the set, supposedly to maintain the illusion that I'm real but actually to maintain the illusion that I'm an illusion. This reporter from TIME (here it's a magazine, not a dental drill) called Tartikoff to kvetch about that, so he agreed to describe the set: "There are all these holes for the uh, er, puppet. Holes in the couch, holes in the bed, holes in the floor. Trapdoors everywhere. It looks like a family of gophers live there." Together, we've concocted this great cover story. Supposedly...
Thursday night, the council tried again. It held a public forum soliciting student opinion about recent council decisions, as well as suggestions on issues to tackle in the future. The council even made cute posters, featuring Clifford the Big Red Dog, with the slogan "Come Kvetch At Us." They bought Sprite, Fanta, Coke, Diet Coke, Tab, Ruffles, Pretzels, Doritos, Oreos, and even Blueberry Newtons, hoping to attract the hungry if no one else...
Titled "Come Kvetch At Us," the forum would have allowed students to meet their council representatives and offer their complaints and suggestions about issues the council should address...
...repeated items were still relevant. One such retread concerned a woman who-like a reader in 1967-was faced with that timeless quandary of whether to wash a banana after it had been peeled. "Millie in The Bronx," a fretful housewife whose letter ran in February, was rewhining the kvetch of "Irving's wife" 15 years earlier, namely, what to do with a husband who stopped off every night at his mother's for chopped herring. Says Ann in an explanatory column: "If just one editor or publisher had let me know that such a practice...