kvetching

There seems to be an unchallenged assumption here that generates all the kvetching.

Get ready for the boards to melt down with their combined whining and kvetching of how people are picking on poor Apple.

Lost in the kvetching, of course, was that the Yankees finished the regular season with 101 victories, the most in the major leagues.

He is the rare politician who can elevate plain old kvetching into the realm of good, even excellent, governing.

But he still has a long way to go, in terms of career-long kvetching, to catch Kobe Bryant.

So, in spite of all the griping and the kvetching, Laurents has a genuine appreciation of the individual artist's achievements.

That, The Artist, and Plummer are smashing exceptions to all of the above kvetching, and have my permission to keep on winning everything.

Despite the kvetching, life is good for Mr. Lewis, who has been friends with Mr. David since they were 12.

Courtly, threatening, antic, they divert the reader briefly from Mrs. Ted's kvetching, fetching though it often is.

While objecting to having their patriotism questioned as they attacked America, celebrities made a big point of claiming to be the superior patriots for their constant kvetching.

That isn't to say there isn't some kvetching: Mr. Philippov, on his way to the finals, laments that "I didn't have any fun here.

That show found Mr. Finn, best known for the knotty ironies and neurotic kvetching of the "Falsetto" musicals, on a new, more lighthearted track.

He's also a proponent of Socialist klezmer: "No kvetching, no schmaltz, just good honest folk songs for the Jewish workingman.")

Let the kvetching begin: the runup to Oscars is upon us, as is the inevitable criticism of the process (and, of course, of their significance or lack thereof).

Widely circulated in e-mails and quoted on web pages, often without attribution, this collection of Jewish Zen combines Eastern wisdom and advice with Jewish kvetching.

Certainly no musical since has offered an opening number to match Mr. Finn's at once merry and neurotic fugue of familial kvetching, "Four Jews in a Room."

If he were Jewish, his present agonizing ("I've lost something and I don't know what") could be summed up as simple kvetching, and the show could move right on to the Catskills.

"I'm tired of the kvetching of cigarette smokers 'forced' to share 'their' space with a cigar smoker, as if cigarette smoke is much less noxious and annoying than cigar smoke," he says.

On the contrary: over the last two years, Ms. Hoffman has found ample grounds for her early misgivings, which she reveals in a new solo show at Joe's Pub, "The Kvetching Continues."

Bitterness is oh so sweet at Joe's Pub, where the mordant pleasure that is Jackie Hoffman is spreading joy through anger in her one-woman show "The Kvetching Continues."

Her mother, now a terrifically bouncy old lady named Selma (who also appears to have cornered the market on KVETCHING), had an affair with my grandfather, circa 1908.

While hooting with laughter at patriotic Americans, liberals prattle on and on about the right to dissent as the true mark of patriotism and claim their unrelenting kvetching is a needed corrective to jingoism.

"For almost four years now, plaintiff and her attorneys have been subjected to constant kvetching by defendants' counsel, who have made a big tsimis about the quantity and quality of plaintiff's responses to discovery requests," it stated.

Louis Comfort Tiffany also made the trip, but he came down with the measles in Egypt and drove his traveling companion - the painter Robert Swain Gifford, also in the show - to distraction with his kvetching.

If you watched the Lil' Kim reality show "Countdown to Lockdown" and agree that the rap diva's pre-jail kvetching was perhaps not her at her best, add to her woes the whupping she gets in "Biggie."