Though he proceeded to lodge hilariously scathing complaints, he never once unfurled the paper he continued to wield.
After he closed his shop, he replaced his old complaints with scathing, sometimes rambling condemnations of his changing neighborhood.
As autumn came, another review - this time on complaints - was scathing about the attitude of the NHS to complaints.
In late December, as Variety's screenings were wrapping up, however, the paper ran what the complaint called a "scathing" review by Robert Koehler.
A scathing review of the way workers' complaints have been mishandled and ignored by the Wage and Hour Division of the Labor Department has just been issued by the Government Accountability Office -- Congress' investigative arm.
In its own report on Tuesday, the Office of Special Counsel, the agency that handles whistle-blower complaints within the federal government, offered scathing criticism of the Air Force's handling of the affair and raised questions about the thoroughness of its investigation.
It is a complaint endorsed by the US senate, which last month received a scathing report written by the staff of Senator John Kerry on the rebuilding of the country, describing it as "stalled" by a lack of leadership, disagreements among donors and disorganisation.
A scathing, 229-page report by the National Guard Bureau Office of Complex Investigations released in September found that complaints by some sexual assault victims before 2012 were not properly documented, that victims were not referred to victim advocates, that their confidentiality was breached and that, "in some cases, the victims were ostracized by their leaders, peers and units".
The Bush campaign, in fact, tried to restrict one scathing Web site, www.gwbush.com, arguing that the site should be regulated as a political committee, but the campaign's complaint was dismissed last month by the Federal Election Commission.
The lawmaker who raised the complaint, Representative Thomas J. Bliley Jr., a Virginia Republican who is the chairman of the Commerce Committee, acted after receiving a scathing report on the agency's computer security from the General Accounting Office.
