Word: kvetching
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Much to the chagrin of all the Harvard cynics who adamantly denounce the dating scene, kvetch about the lack of available hotties, and repetitively soothe their angst-ridden parents with the all-too-common "no one dates and falls in love at college anymore," there are quite a few Harvard couples who fit the archetypal fairytale. These lucky students have sifted through the mass of pseudo-intellectuals, physicists, Porcellian men, and Pitches to finally stumble upon that one special person to whom they can croon "It had to Be You." These students have evaded the Harvard meat market and have...
Perhaps Dartboard just misses New York these days. We can't wait until Thanksgiving to take a breather and plunge into the cradle of neurotic civilization. But at least this weekend we can pretend, as we vicariously screw up personal relationships, kvetch to shrinks, boil lobsters and just generally make the world a crazier place...
...whatever Clinton may say on that missing audio with Huang isn't going to be as incriminating as the Texaco chiefs' words. Nor is Ginzburg likely to find anything on the scale of Nixon's missing seventeen minutes. But Fred Thompson's campaign finance investigation ?which reconvenes Wednesday to kvetch about the klatches ? is desperate. Not only have the 100 hours of tape run out of steam, but Democrats keep pulling out compromising pictures of Reagan and Dole, performing equally dubious fund-raising tricks. Thompson needs Ginzburg to work miracles ? or at the least, raise his eyebrows a little...
Saul Bellow's It All Adds Up (Viking; 327 pages; $24.95) adds up to a stimulating kvetch, a nonfiction Herzog. Like that novel's title character, Bellow shows himself in this collection of essays and criticism to be a great complainer and world worrier. He is, as the Herzog jacket copy described the book's hero 30 years ago, someone who "cannot keep from asking what he calls the 'piercing questions...
KENTLANDS, MD. "They don't make 'em like they used to" has become an all- purpose kvetch when confronted by the shoddy and the dreary. Andres Duany and Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, a brilliant and relentless husband-and-wife team of architects and planners, are devoting their lives to convincing Americans that when it comes to neighborhoods and towns, they can make 'em like they used to. Kentlands, a new town in the suburban Maryland countryside outside Washington, is the couple's most ambitious project to get under way. Streets are narrow; houses are close to one another...