Word: whine
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Taken literally, Sister Morphine is so frightening that it can hardly be regarded as a pro-drug song. Yet it has a posturing whine likely to appeal to the self-dramatizing young, including twelve-and 13-year-olds who will buy the record, just as they are already listening to Brown Sugar on radio...
These characters all seem to be trapped in an unlucky cocktail party that everyone senses is a dud evening. Their voices whine, wane and falter until the grim last line and title of the play reduces everyone to glum silence...
Like Philip Schechter, Martin Siegel has a jaundiced view of Reform Judaism. He, too, is 37: the two men, in fact, were classmates at Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati. There the resemblance ends. Schechter's anger is a howl from the pulpit: Siegel's is a whine from the swimming pool...
...Agatha Christie's and less precious than Dorothy Sayers'. It must be said, though, that Mr. Campion began life in The Black Dudley Murder (1928) in unblushing imitation of Sayers' rococo creation, Lord Peter Wimsey. Both were lean, languid young noblemen who spoke in the high whine that Waugh classified as the British upper class baying for broken glass. Both concealed great skill and cunning behind a facade of graceful, gratuitous vagueness...
...Suez Canal swiftly evaporated. The 90-day cease-fire negotiated by the U.S. was ticking to an end. Israeli and Egyptian soldiers crept back into their bunkers. Lights were doused, guns cocked, vehicles halted, radios turned down, movies canceled. But midnight passed with no more hostile sounds than the whine of the wind and the soft swish of the canal water...