Word: plaint
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...just may have been an ordinary week for a comic who has built his career around the plaint, "I don't get no respect." Shortly after Rodney Dangerfield taped 31 days of material for New York Telephone's Dial-A-Joke, 170,000 Manhattan phones went dead because of a fire in the company switching station. No matter, really, because the New York Daily News, which was to run advertisements and a phone number for the feature, was shut down by a strike. Dangerfield remained calmly pessimistic through it all. Said the cut-off comic to his nightclub...
Given the champ's current reputation, there is a crocodilian element to his plaint, "I am probably better known in Singapore than in the United States." It is that very anonymity that allows him to pursue his chosen field. Recently, in his own Manhattan Ping Pong parlor, Reisman greeted a player who had journeyed uptown to knock off the old pro in Billy the Kid style. Reisman, attired in boots, electric blue suit and matching cap, hesitated. His arm ached, he said, his vision was blurred. Nevertheless, he agreed to spot his opponent 15 points per game. After...
...months, as soaring interest rates drove the cost of borrowing to record peaks, businessmen, labor leaders and economists voiced one plaint: excessively tight credit threatened to push the nation into deep and long recession. For some industries and for millions of individuals the recession has already struck. The dream of buying the single-family house has evaporated along with the drying up of mortgage money; housing starts in August fell 45% from the year-earlier rate...
That simple plaint was shared by millions of Americans last week. It was the first week of year-round Daylight Saving Time, and millions of people set their clocks ahead an hour only to find themselves getting up in what did indeed seem like the middle of the night...
Accuracy. The viewer could have registered the same plaint. For all their frantic promotion, their booming patriotism and self-congratulation, the networks gave a fatigued and indifferent performance. During the warmups, there was a moment of suspense; then the computers ratified the polls and all was over. At 8:30 p.m., NBC won the presidential prediction match by calling Nixon the victor. CBS followed about 20 minutes later. At 9:20, ABC chimed in with its prediction of a landslide...