Word: plaint
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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What's a Loveless woman to do? Simple: stare back at the man who done her wrong and give him caustic advice. The album's first single, a cool Matraca Berg easy-rockin' plaint, says it tartly: "You can feel bad if it makes you feel better." That's the '90s cad for you. He'll take a little short-term guilt--and instant absolution from the woman he's left in the dust...
...publicity and support Hicks received appeared to do little to sway Harvard's resolve. Meanwhile, the former cook's own labor union refused to take his firing to arbitration, prompting Hicks to file a com-plaint against the group with the National Labor Relations Board. That complaint was also rejected over the summer, though Hicks says he has appealed the decision...
What Kissinger failed to confront in his testimony was the disjuncture between his explanation that he knew of no POWs still being held and his plaint that he had no bargaining powers to force the issue. Policy involves making trade-offs, and in 1973 a difficult one was made: the Nixon Administration decided that it was best not to scuttle the peace agreement or re-engage in the war despite the fact that some missing Americans had not yet been accounted for. Winston Lord, Kissinger's onetime aide, was the only witness last week willing to discuss this uncomfortable truth...
...diskery made its rep with girl groups (the Shirelles) and treble rousers (the Isley Brothers, the Kingsmen). It then officiated at the marriage of gospel and pop, with Dionne Warwick selling peerless Burt Bacharach ballads. The set includes many savory hits and some obscure gems: Bacharach's prime plaint I Just Don't Know What to Do with Myself and a King Curtis tune called Potatoe Chips (Dan Quayle take note...
...Loesser's capturing of the Damon Runyon Broadway wit, and by extension the unique pizazz of big-town America. No one had put a medical dictionary to music and turned it into a declaration of psychosomatic desperation, as in the nonpareil Adelaide's Lament. Nobody ever heard a love plaint like Nathan Detroit's: "All right already, I'm just a nogoodnik./ All right already, it's true. So nu?/ So sue me, sue me, what can you do me?/ I love...