Word: moans
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...move to New Jersey (!) to fight for his release. And because so much of the movie centers round Carter and Carter alone, the other characters are left curiously two-dimensional, with no real reason for the audience to relate to them, and it's hard especially not to moan the unused talent of the marvelous Hannah in particular. Depalowski is the flattest, most stereo-typical, most singularly bland villain imaginable. The three Canadians, despite interesting flashes, are really nothing more than ornament to the film. And Martin, in Jewison's single-minded determination to parallel his story to Carter...
...turned out that Brennan had the wrong person--Lewis had never signed up for the campaign--but she and Duehay hit it off. Usually, Brennan said, Duehay would "bitch and moan" about his door-knocking excursions...
...whine and moan about the state of American public education. Why, then, do so few students choose to do something about it? To many of us, who have found our niche in the classroom, teaching seems like the obvious and easiest way to give back...
...panickers as they threw themselves at drill sergeants and generally mucked up our line to get out. (They would try to make light of it later.) Some held their breath and closed their eyes, and got off easy. My plan was to breathe deep - take their best shot - and moan, moan, moan until it all went away, and not do anything to dislodge the big lunch the drill sergeants had gleefully served us just minutes before. It worked - that night I had less to be embarrassed about than most - and I was proud of myself...
...wants to hear the losers complain and moan that they didn't win because the officiating was so "unfair"--that kind of whining is more akin to Little League than to a professional sport...