Word: plaint
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...find attractive single men without having to quiz them on their history of bisexuality and drug use, demand blood-test results and thrust condoms into their hands. Wouldn't it be easier to give up sex altogether and join some religious order?" With a little emendation the same plaint can be made by men. "You think twice," observes a 28-year-old male / patron of Lucy's, a crowded singles bar on Manhattan's West Side. "If sex is too easy, I just won't take...
...farah, fee fi mo marah . . . Sarah!"). They wallow in Lesley Gore's perky petulance ("It's my party and I'll cry if I want to") and sway to the Motown philosophizing of the Supremes ("Baby, baby, where did our love go?"). They thrill again to the eloquent plaint of the Shangri-Las ("Remember, walkin' in the sand") and the sly taunts of the Angels ("My boyfriend's back, he's gonna save my reputation/ If I were you I'd take a permanent vacation"). They squirm a bit at the references to J.F.K.'s assassination and the Viet...
...delirium, a wonderfully judged piece of writing and acting. But then characters will lose their edges in the diffused light that seeps through the windows like radiation and gives the picture its instant-nostalgia look. Important lines of dialogue will be muffled by heavy footsteps or a piano's plaint. The crucial event of the Robedaux family occurs offscreen, in a narrative caesura between the film's two "acts." Watching this film is like going on a diet: it is probably healthy for you but not very nourishing...
...Kirkpatrick, the study reinforced her perennial plaint. As she said last week, "U.N. votes matter because they . . . affect widely held views about perceptions of power, about effectiveness, and about legitimacy." The Reagan Administration says that it will take U.N. votes into account when determining how to distribute foreign...
Piru's plaint is one heard increasingly often as large banks prune their sprawling networks of branches in order to reduce expenses. This year San Francisco's Wells Fargo Bank may close up to 29 of its 387 offices. New York City's Chase Manhattan Bank, which once had 220 branches...