Word: whined
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...villages with their litter-strewn streets appear deserted. Occasionally one or two people are seen, sitting in plastic chairs on the side of the road, chatting and smoking cigarettes. The shops, however are all closed. And high above is the incessant, threatening rumble of Israeli jets and the irritating whine of reconnaissance drones...
...people want calm, high-minded debate, this is not the site for it." Called in to mediate disputes among community members, Moulitsas has all the patience of a drill sergeant. "I get it all the time: 'Such-and-such was mean to me,'" he says in a mock whine. "I feel like I'm in high school. Suck it up, this is politics." More to the point, "This...
...time highs, staff numbers are being cut. Why don't hospital administrators hire enough staff to provide patients with better, safer care? Money is the answer. Maintaining or increasing current nonphysician staff levels cuts into the bottom line, reducing profits for both the hospitals and doctors. When doctors whine about substandard patient care, they're refusing to recognize that hospitals are understaffed. GEORGE M. DAVIS Fuquay-Varina...
...pols sing: "What a charming epiglottis! / What a lovely coat of tan! / Oh, the man who isn't hot is / Not a man!" The Encores! production, staged by John Rando (who directed the wonderful 1998 revival of the Kaufman-Gershwin Strike Up the Band), makes Kaufman's old whine bubble like new wine. Pristinely faithful to the original, down to a film clip of the MGM lion, crowing instead of roaring, the show has a brisk, canny bounce matched only by ... well, by The Drowsy Chaperone. Rando festoons John Lee Beatty's balconied set with streamers, packs the stage with...
...move and trying to pick up famous girls, Skinner acknowledges that he’s bringing it all on himself, nonchalantly replying “I know” to his manager’s dire videophone warnings. The song is just as much a jab at stars who whine about how hard it is to be famous (and the ones who go to rehab clinics for “exhaustion”) as it is at the gossip rags. The video proclaims that he plans to keep making the wrong choices as long as he can, publicity be damned...