Word: acridly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...army said its withdrawal was complete. The agreement had allowed ten days for the pullout, but both sides worked quickly, to give militants of either side less opportunity for violence. Israel's parliament approved the withdrawal by an 87-17 vote late Thursday, after a full day of sometimes acrid debate. Netanyahu was quick to reassure. "We are not leaving Hebron." he said. "We are remaining in all the parts of the city where the Jewish community existed and exists and will continue to exist." But for jubilant Palestinians, everything was different. Jibril Rajoub, Arafat's West Bank security chief...
...know on that muggy, homesick, thrilling day in the fall of 1967 that in a year the blood of classmates--some beaten unconscious by state police (remember their baby blue helmets?)--would stain the steps of University Hall. We had not yet smelled the acrid burn of tear gas wafting down Mt. Auburn Street or cowered in a room in Adams House as angry cops pointed up at our windows with guns that I still picture (in hazy, confused memory) as pointed and shiny, gleaming like bayonets...
...Cirque du Soleil mode, of which trapezist Helene Turcotte, a muscular beauty, is the champion enthraller. But these oases of grace only underline the frenetic naivete of the rest of Pomp Duck. After 3 1/2 hours of the chef chasing the chanteuse, visitors rush out to inhale that acrid New York air as if it were attar of roses. Even Hell's Kitchen is preferable to hell's kitsch...
...best thing about these movies is their acrid sting. They say the Eisenhower years were too complex to be remembered as just Hula-Hoops and hair grease. And that is fine with us old '50s types. When nostalgia is true, it hurts...
...from grotesque events they uncover. Nor do they condescend unduly to the queens and pawns in their investigation. The cops are just doing a job -- one that makes their off-duty lives look drab and irrelevant. Scenes of Tennison's wan private life are mere leavening agents in the acrid yet tangy melodrama that is her life on the force -- the only life she has, really...