Word: whining
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
EXIT THE KING is a stark play about death, rich in poetry and insight. Unfortunately, as interpreted by members of the APA, King has too much of a whine and too little command to involve the audience in lonesco's tragic vision or in his character's emotional tumult...
Saturday's atmosphere of refined Tuckertown technology, however, was broken by a sad moment of introspection. A conductor was demolished: "You've get cars strewn all over the tracks--just look at yourself." A broken man, he replied with a whine, "I can't even find myself...
West Berlin is the focal point of more than one cold war. Outside the towering glass-and-metal headquarters of Publisher Axel Springer, burly guards are posted at every door. Loudspeakers have been installed that emit such a high-pitched whine that it will pain the eardrums of would-be invaders. From the East, over the Wall that runs alongside the building? Not at all. From the West. Militant West Berlin students have threatened to break into the plant and smash the printing presses-not to mention the faces of any Springer personnel who get in their way. To which...
Rosenberg's spectre of authority is highly effective. Strother Martin is perfect as the camp warden. He speaks in a slow, mad, Truman Capote-like whine. In one scene, after savagely caning Luke, he looks at him writhing on the ground and says, "What we have here is a failure to communicate." This is the point--there is no communication between real men like Luke and the authority of a dull, oppressive society...
...battalions. A third battalion later followed and began sweeping the rubber groves east of Loc Ninh. It proved an eerie enterprise. Moving down the corridors between the evenly spaced, parallel rows of trees, the troops were frequently brought up short by jungle birds whose screeches mimicked the whine of bullets. The almost purple earth underfoot teemed with a fierce breed of red ant whose bite meant torment. But the battalion soon did some tormenting of its own. Running into a company of Viet Cong, it killed 83 in a four-hour firefight that left the bullet-punctured rubber trees bleeding...