Word: grouched
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Oscar the Grouch: Oscar doesn't get along with too many people. He's ugly, he's cynical, and he rarely showers. Need I say it? He's a Core teaching fellow...
...action pointed up once again the TV networks' anxiety to round off the sharp corners of public controversy. A professional grouch like Rooney cannot always restrict himself to restaurant receipts and faulty tools. As Fred Friendly, a former CBS News president who is director of the Columbia University Seminars on Media and Society, points out, "Andy's paid to be outrageous." Encouraged to be provocative, Rooney could hardly avoid occasionally uttering something imprudent or offensive to a portion of his audience. But against such excesses must be balanced his intent, which was hardly to ridicule, and his overall record, which...