Word: whine
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...heartbreaking beauty who from Vogue's cover projects an ancient soul can act eight years old in her mother's presence. "Mommy, I have a toothache," she will whine "Oh, Mommy, my nail." Teri plays her part smotheringly: "Use that fork for your cake." "Say hello." "Say please." It is reasonable to wonder when and how Brooke might break loose...
...life blather. Try to get away from it all, and soon a stage-struck airline captain will be monologuing about terrain miles below and half-obscured by the cloud cover. Go to the dentist, and the procedure is all but ordained: thumbs fill the mouth, the drill starts to whine, and a voice begins to express all those unpalatable political opinions...
...think the essence of the English Beat can be found in "Whine & Grind/Stand Down Margaret." Over a walking-on-eggs reggae/ska rhythm, we hear a sweet sax, a polite guitar and vocals which pleasantly croon: "I see no joy/I see only sorrow/I see no chance/of a bright new tomorrow." Like I said, these guys throw a mean curveball...
...Eliee's Lysander, are as energetic a pair as they were last season; new faces animate the female roles--Cynthia Darlow as Hermia and Cherry Jones as Helena. Darlow's Hermia thrusts her lower lip out at life with a little-girl pout that is sometimes winning and a whine that's sometimes shrill; Jones is more the robust than the morose Helena, bludgeoning Demetrius with her lust. The four lovers interact with a vigor that sometimes shakes the planks of the set, providing an object lesson in how these roles can both stand out individually and click with their...
...YORK--Like a Pentagon flunky delivering the daily body count, Norma Lee stands amid the drifting clouds of hair spray, raising her voice a little so it will carry over the killer-bee whine of the foot-massaging machines. "Sunday--89 reporters groomed, 51 men and 38 women. Monday--131 reporters groomed, more than half of them...