No grumping or harumphing or even pouting because he wasn't in the game.

The Two Rivers men, used to farmers' days, were already making breakfast, some laughing and roughhousing around their cook fires, some grumping, but most getting the work done.

Directed by Peter Yates with more cuteness than credibility, "Roommates" becomes a vehicle for Mr. Falk and his cantankerous grumping.

During my days as an American-studies major, I never quite understood the scholarly reverence for Adams's laments about American society - to me, it all sounded like the grumping of a Boston Brahmin appalled to discover that going to Harvard and being named Adams was no longer enough to guarantee a man the Presidency.