Word: whine
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sighs in resignation. "People say 'all she did was whine and get drunk all the time' and 'why didn't she go out and do something?'" She leans forward earnestly, a plaintive note in her voice. "I didn't spend a lot of time in the book, and maybe I should have, just documenting every single thing I did to try to change it, every memo that I wrote, every phone call I tried to make, every criticism. We'd go in and see Gordon; we'd beg them to take the ad libs off the air. I had plans...
...brazenly healthy specimen with a weak-willed, soft-hearted core, a man whose oblique playfulness (meant to hide everything) pleads desperately for help and affection but who is vacillating, mean and a bit of an ass. Here he plays a sly, greasy Dennis-the-Menace type with the manipulative whine and offended pout of a three year old. He waddles through the film grinning lasciviously, scratching his belly--a charicature of immaturity and meanness. It's a putrid role for him. The director has pared away Nicholson's sleekness and suavity, left only that soft, slightly rotten center...
Milne wears his rue with a certain deference. Most of his revelations are brief, more marked by tact and irony than by whine or whimsy. In truth, Mummy, a daughter of the rich and distinguished de Sélincourt family, does not come off very well. When Rabbit says to Owl, "You and I have brains. The others just have fluff," Milne makes clear that "the others" emphatically included his mother. She was dim, she hated games and was good only at gardening, interior decoration and tying parcels-the one "practical thing she was properly taught in her whole life...
...behind desks, or infest libraries, or say 'No Comment' just don't make for exciting copy. Kearns is emotional and plaintive, Goodwin is garrulous and familiar, and Glikes is intense and a little self-righteous. They all call me Phil, they all love to go off-the-record and whine about the other characters in this story, no matter how minor, and they all have an axe to grind. And they're all trying to manipulate me by pretending to be utterly candid...
...designs for false bookshelves and secret passageways, Krotz some times appears to be auditioning for the part of James Bond's next artificer. But his improvisations are far more suggestive of a Maxwell Smart rerun. One can almost hear the nasal whine: "The old up-and-in opening-fulcrum-stair-kick-board hiding place, eh, chief?" One significant hiding place is omitted from this complete volume: a place large enough to accommodate both the thief and his victim. It is called the judicial system, with its hidden compartments-the police station, the courtroom and the jail...