Word: complaining
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...wake of Gorbachev's liberalizing reforms, the once proud armed forces have grown increasingly demoralized, and their popular prestige has plummeted. Young recruits complain of rampant hazing, even homosexual rape. Ethnic violence has racked many units; some military men claim that more Soviet soldiers have died in perestroika-era ethnic clashes than in Afghanistan. "How can an army that can't defend its own soldiers defend an entire country?" asks Valentina Zhukova, 42, whose son Edward was killed under mysterious circumstances while he was on active duty in Siberia. "They have no prestige...
...change in people's attitudes. True, I unhappily admit to knowing several kids who insist on talking only about the SATs and the prestigious university they "know" will accept them. However, the majority of the kids I've met are warm, friendly people who would much rather complain about the Union food or talk about the latest movie than bore classmates with tales of all their community service back home...
White House aides complain that Thornburgh has got a bad rap from the press. Thornburgh recently sent George Bush a copy of a quote that he loves: "Any Attorney General who isn't making enemies probably isn't doing his job right." Thornburgh has made enemies, to be sure, but he insists that he will weather the current round of criticism. His plan for survival: "I'm a team player. I'm the President...
...English and American literature. Gross, from Long Island, N.Y., joined the staff later, after completing his major in Latin American studies at Brown University. Like some of his peers, Gross took a semester off before finishing college; he spent the time touring Central America. "My father used to complain that I had no long-term plans," says Gross. "When I told him last month about this story, he thought it was great. Now he knows that lots of other parents worried about the same kinds of things...
What redeems the work in the end is the dialogue, in its acuity and trenchant wit. The levels of diction in the production, either through directorial or textual failings, are almost as numerous as the subplots, but it is hard to complain. The moments of lyricism in the play compensate. Chrissy wants to dance ballet and "other dances that tell a story, of which go-go is only a poor fascimile...