Word: plaint
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...diskery made its rep with girl groups (the Shirelles) and treble rousers (the Isley Brothers, the Kingsmen). It then officiated at the marriage of gospel and pop, with Dionne Warwick selling peerless Burt Bacharach ballads. The set includes many savory hits and some obscure gems: Bacharach's prime plaint I Just Don't Know What to Do with Myself and a King Curtis tune called Potatoe Chips (Dan Quayle take note...
...Loesser's capturing of the Damon Runyon Broadway wit, and by extension the unique pizazz of big-town America. No one had put a medical dictionary to music and turned it into a declaration of psychosomatic desperation, as in the nonpareil Adelaide's Lament. Nobody ever heard a love plaint like Nathan Detroit's: "All right already, I'm just a nogoodnik./ All right already, it's true. So nu?/ So sue me, sue me, what can you do me?/ I love...
Although Terkel maintains an air of bemused objectivity during these exchanges, there is no mystery about the location of his sympathies. The book's title is taken from the plaint of a black journalist: "If you don't have any hope and all you look forward to is producing more and more generations of welfare kids, you're definitely worse off. That is the big gap, the Great Divide...
...faced as palace guards whenever Israel does something that we do not like. Either that, or to blurt out some whiny silliness as Woody Allen did on the New York Times op-ed page in January, detailing a comedian's personal distress over a complicated international tragedy. Allen's plaint encouraged equally irrelevant counteraccusations of Jewish self-hate but this time did not reinstate the old cautionary mode. Unswervingly pro-Israel publications such as the New Republic, several Jewish organizations, 30 U.S. Senators sympathetic to Israel and last week President Reagan have expressed their impatience with Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir...
...being listless, they withdraw socially, lose interest in sex and feel anxious and irritable. As spring approaches, depression subsides and behavior returns to normal. In fact, some people become downright euphoric during the long days of July and August. Carl Harris, 37, of Takoma Park, Md., whose winter plaint is "If I were a bear, I'd hibernate," finds in summer that he needs only four hours of sleep a night and can work two or three jobs at once. Latitude appears to be as important as season: the incidence and severity of SAD increase with distance ; from the equator...