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Both Times and the WP stress the partisan carping the surplus has inspired: the Democrats want credit for passing a 1993 tax increase without a single Republican vote, and the Republicans want credit for pressuring Clinton in 1995 to commit to a balanced budget.
I do not deny the fact that it does not appear as one word, but if it is going to appear that way in anything I have written it will be after I am dead (and if this carping keeps up, there will soon be a contract out on me).
Some carping, however: Costumes by Kawakubo are said to make dancers look like they have "incipient elephant-man disease" and to obscure their movements (Joan Acocella, the Wall Street Journal ). (B.A.M.
Alas, M&S continue to take up the cudgel, carping against writing which, in some cases, antedates recognition of a problem: it is like nattering on about how awful the Romans were because they condoned slavery; rather a waste of space, time, and motion, Wot?
As long as I'm carping, even the movie's first third has problems.