Word: moaned
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Wright's mercurial Mayor leads the American Rep actors in their flight from traditional-conversational exchange, alternating with precise control between an entirely non-verbal, vacuous moan and a galloping torrent of words tripping over each other in their eagerness to overwhelm the listener. He shouts "I'm not guilty" like an incantation to dispel the ills the world flings at him; his colleagues ponder their response to the supposed inspector-general's arrival with the cacophonous murmur of an elderly Orthodox Jewish congregation praying at different speeds. Richard Grusin's nasal, rotund Director of Welfare Institutions and Eric Elice...
...Yanks, on the other hand, expect to win. Their fans, as Roger Angell says, think championships are their due. That's called pride. We don't moan at mid-season, "We're winning now, but it'll go down the tubes by September." That's called self-pity...