Word: plaint
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Albee's plaint about Sutherland: "He hasn't been onstage in 17 years, so he's scared out of his mind. There were some scenes that he thought were possibly a bit too difficult for him, so I had to simplify a couple of scenes a little bit." Responds Sutherland: "Absolute bull. Every once in a while Edward would write something that was not terribly good, and one would say, 'Edward, I don't think I can do that.' Nothing had been rejected on the basis of my being incapable of doing...
Despite the mediocre numbers, the year rates as at least a partial success. Harvard's top seven players included one senior, two juniors, two sophomores and two freshmen. The traditional plaint of the losing coach--"it was a rebuilding year"--actually works this time...
While moviegoers have been weeping this winter over the wrenching divorce drama Kramer vs. Kramer, lawyers have been shaking their heads. Their plaint is not that the couple's attorneys in the film are the least appealing characters since the Wicked Witch of the West, but that the courtroom scenes are legally out of date. Meryl Streep, playing a restless housewife trying to find fulfillment, has walked out on her marriage to Dustin Hoffman, a hustling young Manhattan adman, leaving him with their young son; 18 months later she wins custody of the child despite the husband...