Word: bitched
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...drop in 10,000 gal. is considered a dangerous concentration. Under political pressure, the EPA agreed to pay off all property owners; homeowners got between $8,800 and $98,900 apiece. And the town died. On one street remains an ex-resident's bright white graffito: GOODBYE TIMES BITCH...
...women see Wellesley women as competition and "bitch about" inviting Wellesley women to parties and other events, Butler says, so he wasn't surprised by their reaction...
This volatile mixture forms the substance of tragicomedy and fills it with asides that are, like the tabloid, just slightly askew: " 'My ex-wife . . . was a bitch.' Ilka thought that's what she wanted to be--a bitch and a looker. Think of the opportunities!" The voluble, repetitious Bayoux cannot match her lunatic poignancy, but he can be an apt foil and in the end helps to prove that the immigrant novel, from Henry Roth's Call It Sleep to Isaac Bashevis Singer's Lost in America to Lore Segal's Her First American, remains inexhaustible...
Thompson's doesn't just bitch on this album, though. In the two slow songs, "Love In A Faithless Country" and "Ghosts In The Wind," he almost entirely dispenses with words, preferring to convey emotion by constructing dissonant, haunting atmospheres full of tragic and pathetic echoes. Thompson is one of the few guitarists in popular music who dares to use leaps of dissonance in his soloes: often you'll here bits of the blues, Celtic folk, heavy metal, and even classical stylings woven into the same song. Sometimes, in the overextended jam. "Country", for example, this variety can lack focus...
...defensive and guilt-ridden. A character like Toni Morrison's Jadine, a Black model who flees her roots and exploits whites in Tar Baby, seems to affirm the idea of the desolate isolation of a young, privileged, materialistic Black member of the bourgeoise. But Lee succeeds in transcending this "bitch" stereotype with Sarah Phillips...