Word: plaintes
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While Wurtzel's plaint is heartfelt, it isn't more than that. The book is all shapeless feeling. Wurtzel complains that predatory Joey Buttafuoco, not Amy Fisher, should be in jail. She wishes Hillary Clinton were President. She thinks Glenn Close's character in Fatal Attraction was misunderstood: the woman was just true to her feelings (never mind that many women sleep with married men but don't start boiling pets...
...into a dominatrix growl; it's an invitation to a dangerous liaison, delivered deadpan. A Simple I Love You has the same let's-fall-in-love message, this time sung not as a come-on but as a last chance for human contact. Barnett brings to this lovely plaint a maturity as amazing as Rimes' vocal virtuosity; she's the woman with a past, hoping for a future. It all promises well for her own future--we can imagine, say, a half-century from now, a Nashville tribute show called Simply...Mandy Barnett...
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...