Word: plainte
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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Despite the mediocre numbers, the year rates as at least a partial success. Harvard's top seven players included one senior, two juniors, two sophomores and two freshmen. The traditional plaint of the losing coach--"it was a rebuilding year"--actually works this time...
While moviegoers have been weeping this winter over the wrenching divorce drama Kramer vs. Kramer, lawyers have been shaking their heads. Their plaint is not that the couple's attorneys in the film are the least appealing characters since the Wicked Witch of the West, but that the courtroom scenes are legally out of date. Meryl Streep, playing a restless housewife trying to find fulfillment, has walked out on her marriage to Dustin Hoffman, a hustling young Manhattan adman, leaving him with their young son; 18 months later she wins custody of the child despite the husband...