Word: biling
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Perhaps Trudeau's greatest gift is the ability to present such satire without bile, to put strong statements in the mouths of gentle characters-to demonstrate, as Mike Doonesbury says, that "even revolutionaries like chocolate-chip cookies." After all, who else but Trudeau could have made an attractive character out of a Viet Cong terrorist-or out of a woman who abandons her family? True, Doonesbury can often be held in contempt of public figures and just about all kinds of politics. But Trudeau also laments the passing of the idealistic 1960s. A melancholy Rev. Scot Sloan resigned...
Joan Bonato seems to have written Philadelphia for actors to show off their talents, and at times they do. Lois Shelton as Louise, a black woman deserted by her alcoholic husband, knows how to express her bitterness with a good amount of bile. And her lines--especially about taking a black stable-boy statue from the white home where she's going to do the cleaning and lynching it--bring together a good mixture of humor and sorrow. Somehow this play is made for the down-and-outers of the raw, physical side of life, because aside from the black...
...King Lear but is simply hateful in Tuppenny-hapenny Cottage. Graham Greene once wrote that when trying to refine the pangs and foibles of men and women into fiction, a novelist must have a sliver of ice in his heart. A sliver of ice, yes. A lump of black bile, no. > Timothy Foote
Beat the Devil was good-humored and breezy, however, and Alfredo Garcia is full of fury and bile. It is a troubling, idiosyncratic and finally unsuccessful film-troubling not for the feelings of horror it intermittently tries to conjure up but for the impression it gives of being a dead end. It is like a private bit of self-mockery, a sort of ritual of closet masochism that invites, even challenges, everyone to think the worst...
...Tower said that Rockefeller would be O.K., though not his first choice. Senator Goldwater doubted that Rockefeller would go over with the G.O.P. rank and file, but would not oppose the New Yorker. Said a top White House adviser: "The President discovered, somewhat to his surprise, that the ancient bile among conservatives had diminished. Rockefeller was no longer able to make the dragon show its teeth...