Word: whining
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...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...
...limited to: better health (both mental and physical), loss of memory (with specific regard to the shuttle schedule), physical presence in places other than where you are right now (some walkers have even reported going to more than one place per day). Should you experience the need to whine about any of these side-effects, stop walking immediately: You are putting yourself in severe danger of losing your natural state of laziness. Once you have mastered the art of walking, you may wish to progress to advanced forms of self-transportation: Running, technically similar to walking but at an increased...
...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...
...film or TV program is enjoyed by millions, my knee-jerk reaction is to whine about it loudly and recite all the great movies it “ripped off.” Thus, I didn’t start watching the ballad of Tony Soprano until 2004. Even then, I only did it because my dad wanted to have a “let’s-watch-something-on-VHS” bonding session...
...having Democrats whine about Bush's warrantless wiretaps: all they talked about before was how the President never listened to them." --WILL DURST...