Word: whining
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...university, and those who knowingly attack it commit an offense more serious than pyromania or even plagiarism. The only reasonable penalty is separation from the university. It is utterly ridiculous that members of the Harvard community who have willfully violated the free speech of others dare to whine about their own right of free speech when caught and charged with doing so; and it is almost obscene that they attempt to clothe themselves with the dignity of civil disobedience, even though their words and actions have been anything but civil, even though they deny any authority to try them...
...some Bartlett's and James. If only PBS and C-SPAN deem your performance worthy of coverage, it is cooler not to whine about it. Instead, haul out the quote books and show off your erudition for this upscale audience. Here, for example, is a useful phrase from The Spoils of Poynton: "The fatal futility of Fact...
Next is the gee-I'm-so-cute-and-friendly approach, usually employed by girls and unctuous preppies. "Aw, c'mon, please, pretty please," they whine, eyelids batting somewhere down about the level of their drooling lips. But most annoying is the dissatisfied customer angle, to which there is no legally permissible reply. "Hey kid! I get more than that...
George Washington--a hero? Please, they whine. Washington was an eighteenth century Reagan, (who, by the way, lacks intellectual sophistication). Washington cut an impressive figure, sure. But Alex Hamilton really ran the show...
...OTHER SIDE of the tally, however, is Lydia Bruce's key performance as Bessie. Her Machiavellian machinations to keep her family in line seem to have no motivation other than sheer perfidy, and when she does try to explain herself all she does is whine. One problem right off the bat is the Jewish dialect which seems like an alien tongue to most of the actors, as they try to wrap their mouths around convoluted phrases like "So bad I never imagined you could be!" One small complaint, only for purists, is that there is not one single Yiddish word...