Word: plaint
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...bookend this plaint with allusions, we turn to George Orwell, who offered in Nineteen Eighty-Four a picture of the future as “a boot stomping on the human face—forever.” Sadly, that future is now, and it’s across from the Barker Center...
Until, that is, DeLay redistricted Texas Congress- man Chris Bell--now the Democratic nominee for Texas Governor--out of a job. In Bell, Sloan finally had the in-house ally she needed, and under House rules formally filed a CREW-drafted com-plaint in June 2004. Eventually, the Ethics Committee unanimously admonished the majority leader--an early sign of the troubles that led to DeLay's resignation and an achieve- ment Sloan counts as "the thing I'm most proud...
...productions for the Crystals and Ronettes; the arrangement is both burlier and more complex. The song begins with a snatch of spoken doggerel ("Pretty eyes of midsummer's morn, / They call her Dawn"). Then the drummer has a quick snit fit, and organ and chimes lead into the plaint, "Dawn, go away, I'm no good for you," as a guitar strums 2/4 Latino figures. There are six different melodic elements-hard to call anything in this song a chorus, a verse or a bridge-under the strong harmonic vocals and, of course, the marching feet...
...second was covered, and nicely revamped as rockabilly, by the Everly Brothers; the third (?My covers, they feel like lead/ And my pillow, it feels like stone/ Well I?ve tossed and turned so every night/ I?m not used to bein? alone?) stands as the potent plaint of a man bereft...
Empty-nesters everywhere are giving voice to the plaint about their children's pets, in tones ranging from good-humored to peevish. When we got our kids that winsome puppy, that funny parrot, most of us never peered into the future. Nor could we foresee advances in veterinary medicine that have lengthened animals' lives, leaving parents not just with still loved pets but with geriatric cases as well...