Word: whine
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...foothills of Lebanon's Mount Hermon last week, the quiet of almond-blossom time was shattered by the whine of jets, the clatter of tank treads and the thunder of explosions. Israel continued its attacks on Palestinian guerrilla bases inside Lebanon (TIME, March 6), and the fighting there indirectly led to a skirmish on the Syrian border and at least temporarily deprived the fedayeen of one more base of operation against Israel...
...away are the supermarkets crowded with housewives in shorts and minis, the fried-chicken drive-ins and the wig-care salons. The staples of this new life are beer, sports and steak dinners. Power mowers whine all day Saturday, and on Sunday mornings the streets are full of prebreakfast car washers. Every suburb has its lawn bowls club, its public tennis courts and golf course, and many of the young elite are developing such affluent addictions as saunas, big-game fishing, ski weekends and even a little group...
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...