Critic's Notebook HOUSTON — Talk with any bunch of art professionals about recently built museums and you're likely to hear kvetch, kvetch, kvetch followed by an admiring reference to the Menil Collection.
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During a lunch she had with Mel Bochner, whose word paintings were going to be shown at the museum, he wrote on a slip of lined paper "KVETCH KVETCH KVETCH KVETCH" multiple times across his sketch of the front desk — a drawing now framed on Ms. Gould's wall.
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Kvetch Complain Extra credit: In Yiddish, kvetchn means to squeeze.
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Who am I to kvetch in the face of that?
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"Smelly feet, hot mess, always forgets to charge me," the insoles kvetch.
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These characters don't kvetch or kvell, at least not in those terms.
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But most relevant to my kvetch: Elizabeth Sloane friendless, unmarried, and romantically unattached.
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He can kvetch about the Fed all he wants — rates are going up.
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Others say the Sanders candidacy is too quixotic to kvetch or kvell about.
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And we all adored him, and loved caring for him, our Ur-Kvetch.
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It was perfect — a consummate kvetch, peeved with everything and everybody (except small children).
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So perhaps a designated day for singles to come together and kvetch is actually what's needed.
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For hosts, a president from the opposition party offers a target about whom to bellow and kvetch.
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It was our first sign that this was not going to be the kvetch-und-shvitz crowd.
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Why kvetch about Midge's greedy father-in-law, a portrait so coarse that it verges on anti-Semitism?
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I'm still fucking miserable, I'm just older and it's less acceptable to kvetch in the same kind of ways.
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These two Upper West Siders are cantankerous companions who kvetch about anything that seems different than they remember it.
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I won't kvetch about how money flows freely here for everyone but the people who actually seem to be from here.
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You've probably heard the ones on the list ahead (chutzpah, nosh, kvetch), and have possibly wondered what the speaker actually means.
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Like others acquainted with the grief of cancer, I kvetch mightily about the need for better prevention, detection and treatment tools.
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Myerson calls her daughter to kvetch and berate, but also unwittingly express a desperate need for company, if only on the phone.
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We'll argue about this all over again when iOS 13 comes out, but until then, let the iPad Pro people kvetch about it.
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Language is so fungible a medium that English has absorbed dozens of Yiddish words, like chutzpah, kvetch, kibitz, megillah, schmooze, nosh and schlock.
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There's also a Broadway kvetch-fest and two immersive shows, one about a randy sexual heaven and the other about a ghostly hell.
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There's no group more eager to kvetch than the Twitter faithful, and nothing to send them spiraling toward mutiny like changes to their timelines.
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This 1968 lexicon codified words like "kvetch" and "schlep" in American English (and surely had a place of honor on the Maisel's own bookshelf).
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Here the movie fulfills those hoary tropes by getting Hirsch to kvetch at Goldblum, Pullman to swagger with Caucasian hubris, Vivica A. Fox to sass.
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It was easy to imagine Real Karl dictating to a shirtless man in tweed pants to dismiss and kvetch over anything from bad weather to a family car.
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I loved the wordplay in "Beef in a kosher deli?" for KVETCH and learned that HAMBONE is a rhythm technique that uses the body as a percussion instrument.
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Geeks may kvetch that the Samsung Galaxy S26 has a faster, better, and newer Snapdragon 22017, but just because a thing isn't the newest thing doesn't mean it's not a good thing.
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These characters banter and kvetch and berate one another in dialogue that's cutting and foul-mouthed and largely flat, or at least not as sharp as we've come to expect from these writers.
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"Whatever you say, I'll be," he says to appease his fretful mother, leaving the audience to ponder a playwright's first steps, which here make for a kvetch-filled evening that frustrates more than it fascinates.
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However, if you are in the market for a camera that costs more than $1,000 and want something compelling — hardware that enamored you, even if you have no shooting experience — the D5500 might make you kvetch.
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On the front, it's easy to kvetch about the large bezel on the bottom, but I don't mind it; it makes the phone feel balanced and it's more comfortable to hit the on-screen home button.
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"No matter how much we kvetch about prominent publications linking to Amazon, those publications simply can't turn away from the significant revenue that affiliate links offer," says Danny Caine of Raven Book Store in Lawrence, Kansas.
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Their dramatic function is little more than to kvetch about being forbidden to smoke en route, and, when they do get out for a cigarette and a chat, we don't hear more than scraps of what they say.
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For those in Northern California who are severely lacking in their very own Monk's Café, a place where they can convene with their friends and kvetch about the little indignities of the world, Sacramento is now home to Costanza's, a Seinfeld-themed bar named for Jason Alexander's bumbling, balding character George Costanza.
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' ", a book review by William Grimes, The New York Times, September 28, 2005 As Wex wittingly notes: "A simple kvetch is a descriptive activity that conveys disapproval... a knole (curse)", on the other hand, is a kvetch with a mission". The book received an honourable mention from the ALA in the Sophie Brody Award 2006.
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Ken Krimstein is an American author and lecturer. He works as a cartoonist in The New Yorker, where he has been publishing cartoons since 2011. Krimstein has published in Forbes Magazine, Forward, The New York Observer, among others, and has authored two books: Kvetch as Kvetch Can: Jewish Cartoons (2010) and The Three Escapes of Hannah Arendt (2018). In addition to his work as a writer and cartoonist, Krimstein is an advertising creative director and teaches at DePaul University, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and YIVO Institute for Jewish Research.
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His awards include two National Endowment of the Arts fellowships and the 1991 National Jewish Book Award in the Children's Literature category. Simckes received the Best Actor award for his performance in the award-winning comedy short-film, Kvetch.
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Born to Kvetch: Yiddish Language and Culture in All Its MoodsBorn to Kvetch: Yiddish Language and Culture in All Its Moods, Michael Wex, St. Martin's Press, New York, 2005, Born to Kvetch (Audio CD). is a 2005 book by Michael Wex devoted to Yiddish. In this book, "Wex is a rare combination of Jewish comic and scholarly cultural analyst". The book became a New York Times Bestseller and was followed by a Yiddish phrasebook Just Say Nu. A review by Pamela Rothstein, Union for Reform Judaism The book is about cultural and religious influences in Yiddish language, and how the Jewish worldview is reflected in Yiddish, putting the main focus on Yiddish as a language of opposition (or "language of aggravation, of exile and alienation" as Allan Nadler puts it"A New Book Examines How Yiddish Became the Language of Aggravation", a book review by Allan Nadler, The Forward, August 26, 2005) during their life in diaspora often within hostile cultures.
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Michael Wex (born September 12, 1954) is a Canadian novelist, playwright, translator, lecturer, performer, and author of books on language and literature.Summer Yiddish Internship 2008: Yiddish Summer.org His specialty is Yiddish and his book Born to Kvetch was a surprise bestseller in 2005. Wex lives in Toronto with his wife Marilla and daughter Sabina.
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Beth Soll has also collaborated with various composers such as Robert Aldridge, Richard Cornell, John Funkhouser and Dennis Miller. She has also collaborated with artists such as Ed Andrews, Liese Bronfenbrenner, Mira Cantor, Katherine Finkelpearl and Nancy Hotchkiss. The company has presented a new work each year since 2001 including most recently Lament, Kvetch… and Romp!(2009) and Restless Geometry (2010).
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He also translated Nava Semel's children's book, Becoming Gershona, about a twelve-year-old girl in 1958 Tel Aviv,Alibris.com, retrieved February 7, 2011. which won the National Jewish Book Award for Children's Literature. In addition to Hebrew, Simckes is fluent in Yiddish, and according to the director of the film Kvetch, Austin Kase, Simckes was one of the inspirations for the movie, and also appeared in it.
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In 1986 Fuller played the part of Frank in the US premiere of Steven Berkoff's play Kvetch in West Los Angeles. The following year he reprised the role Off-Broadway at the Westside Arts Theater. From 2010 to 2011, Fuller appeared in the ABC Network series Better with You: the show was canceled after a single season. Fuller portrays director of the C.I.A., Grayden Osborne, in the ABC drama Scandal.
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In 2003, Eduardo taught Scripting and Directing for New Media at the International School of Cinema and TV, in San Antonio de los Baños, in Cuba. Between 2001 and 2003, Condorcet dedicated himself to video art work, namely the installations Tales/M, and The House and Darkness, based on the work of Portuguese renown author José Luís Peixoto. In 2003 Eduardo directed Steven Berkoff’s theatre play Kvetch and in 2004, Audição com Daisy no Odre Marítimo, by Armando Nascimento Rosa.
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Most are male, hunchbacked, and speak with a lisp; one was discovered to be female — an Igorina — in Monstrous Regiment. They often modify their bodies by sewing limbs and organs from corpses (or "passed down" from older relatives) into themselves, leaving large stitches similar to Frankenstein's monster. ;Kvetch : Creatures covered from head to foot in hair who fled their native Mouldavia for Ankh-Morpork after a war broke out. Sam Vimes snidely remarks that Vetinari will demand that some be allowed on the Watch before too long.
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Aside from First Amendment issues, the Association does not take sides in political controversies. Formed in 1957 by a small group of newspaper cartoonists led by John Stampone of the Army Times, the AAEC was created to promote and stimulate public interest in the editorial page cartoon and to create closer contact among political cartoonists. Each year, the annual AAEC convention is held in a different North American city, allowing cartoonists and other association members—including publishers, writers, historians and collectors—the chance to meet face-to-face, talk shop, and generally kvetch.
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This intricate set finds itself transformed on alternating nights when an entirely different show, the two-act Kvetch, takes the stage. The new set, a black-and-white op-art representation of the inside of a neurotic brain (designed, again, by Faerron) proves to be the most imaginative aspect of this overwrought comedy...” “Hellhound On My Trail” Berkeley Daily Planet – “James Faerron’s set is quite striking. Windows downstage left and right plunge upstage center with a highly exaggerated angle of perspective. In the first act, with the addition of well- used wooden furniture, it is a schoolish bureaucratic interrogation room.
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Kvothe: Kvothe, pronounced nearly the same as quothe with the "kv" sounding as in the Yiddish kvetch and the e being silent, is the protagonist of The Kingkiller Chronicle. At the young age of twelve, he is orphaned and forced to survive alone on the streets of Tarbean as a beggar. His most prominent physical features are his red hair and green eyes. Kvothe is a prodigy in the arts and arcane magic with an extraordinary memory - his prodigious feats earning him admission at the University and helping him become an infamous student during his stay.
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Paros’ published works ranging from education and etymology to children’s books. He is the author of Dancing on the Contradictions — a book of transforming our schools, our students, and ourselves. Grounded in real life, rather than abstract theory, it features vivid snapshots of interactions with students — often in their own words — the struggles that they and the author faced together, their resilience, and their mutual transformation. His other published works include The Black and the Blue: The Story of the Other Yale, The Great American Cliché, The Erotic Tongue (Madrona and Henry Holt and Company), Bawdy Language (Kvetch Press) and Smashcaps, (Avon (publishers)).
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This work illustrates the influence of European literary forms on emerging Yiddish literature, not only in its subject but in the form of its stanzas and rhyme scheme, an adaptation of Italian ottava rima. Nonetheless, Levita altered many features of the story to reflect Judaic elements, though they rest uneasily with the essentially Christian nature of chivalry. (For a discussion of the tension between Christian and Jewish elements in the Bovo-bukh, see chapter two of Michael Wex’s Born to Kvetch.) A number of Yiddish epic poems appeared in the 14-15th centuries. The most important works of this genre are the Shmuel-Bukh and the Mlokhim-Bukh - chivalric romances about king David and other Biblical heroes.
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Occasionally, it is called "little Messiah".Born to Kvetch, Michael Wex, St. Martin's Press, New York, 2005, . The insects have been used to symbolise Ladybird Books (part of Penguin Group), and the Ladybird range of children's clothing sold by the former high street chain Woolworth's in the UK, while the ladybird street tile is a symbol against senseless violence in the Netherlands, and is often placed on the sites of deadly crimes. Ladybirds have served as the US state insects of Delaware, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, Ohio, and Tennessee, though only New York has selected a species native to the United States (Coccinella novemnotata); the other states have all adopted an invasive European species (Coccinella septempunctata).
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White landed his first part in the Kate Jackson film A Kidnapping in the Family, and guest-starring roles in The Sentinel, Madison, The Outer Limits, Viper, Beggars & Choosers, Strange Frequency and Da Vinci's Inquest, among many others, soon followed. From 1997-1999, White became a series regular on Millennium, starring as FBI computer specialist Doug Scaife. He appeared throughout Season 3, becoming especially prominent during the final few episodes as Frank Black's most trusted confidante. In 1997, White was nominated for two Jessie Richardson Theatre Awards in Vancouver for his acclaimed performance as Hal in the Way Off Broadway production of Steven Berkoff's Kvetch. He has also twice performed for Bard on the Beach, Western Canada's hugely successful Shakespeare festival, appearing in the title role in Pericles in 2003.
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The story is narrated by a groundhog named Pardon-Me-Pete, who has a deal with Jack Frost to extend winter by 6 weeks, letting him sleep that much longer. Pete starts to talk about the legend of Jack Frost. It all starts when Jack Frost, an immortal winter sprite, falls in love with a human girl named Elisa, who proclaims her love for Jack after he rescues her when Kubla Kraus, an evil Cossack king who lives all alone in his castle on Miserable Mountain, except for his iron horse Klangstomper, his clockwork butler Fetch- Kvetch, his army of Keh-Nights, and a ventriloquist's dummy named Dommy as his sidekick, all made of iron since no people or animals could stand to live with him due to his arrogance and greed, cracks the ice she is standing on. Jack asks Father Winter if he can become human in order to be with her.
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