Word: bitch
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...leave and fend for herself. Light-skinned enough to pass for white, she is caught between two worlds. A white man proposes marriage, then rapes her when she reveals her parentage; a black woman, responding to her plea for food, throws a plateful on the ground: "Eat that, white bitch!" She has a child by a black laborer (Dennis Haysbert) who walks out on her. She moves in with a pair of religious-fanatic spinsters who try to take away her baby. Later, bitter and near a breakdown, she is thrown into a mental institution full of raving loonies...
...eyewitnesses who would place him at Treblinka," Ryan wrote in his 1984 book, Quiet Neighbors. "I put the two photos side by side and studied them for a long time. You son of a bitch, I thought...
...newly discovered material, rehearsals in 1955 where Lady Day runs through some tunes, runs over a little history ("Jesus Christ. Man broke my heart and I needed the loot"), runs down some collaborators ("The dirty bum," she says of her producer, Norman Granz. "I hate that son of a bitch") and in general gives a strong account of the spirit that kept her vital even as her body was giving...
...then there's the tree thing. Every year a few people bitch and moan about the presence of this religious artifact in house dining halls and JCRs. I say, bullfeathers. These erstwhile evergreens are about as secular as it gets, unless they're bedecked with a cross or an angel or Donny and Marie Osmond paraphernalia...
Cohn is the ideal villain. He stole from clients. He corrupted the political system. He illegally lobbied a judge to secure the execution of Ethel Rosenberg (who haunts Cohn in his dying days, then says the Kaddish over his corpse, ending with a blasphemous but heartfelt "son of a bitch"). But for Kushner's polemical purposes, Cohn's greatest evil was his willingness to tolerate, in fact promote, discrimination against gays even as he secretly enjoyed boundless gay sex. He is embodied with robust humor and seductive malevolence by Kushner and actor Ron Leibman, who make Cohn a villain...