Word: bitter
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...1970s were bitter years for the New York Public Library. Because of budget restraints, the main research library, housed in Carrère and Hastings' magnificent 1911 neoclassical palace at Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street, which once was open 87 hours a week, could afford to stay open only 43 hours. Rain was leaking through the roof and into the stacks, endangering a number of the library's 6.5 million volumes. New Yorkers looked upon the library, supported for eight decades by a combination of private philanthropy and tax dollars, as a shabby invalid. Even "Patience" and "Fortitude...
...think this place is dull when you're here you should be here when you're not here"); the second half is flat-out farce with the tincture of domestic tragedy coloring the night sky. Ian McKellen is fine as Platonov, the country schoolmaster whose bitter gaiety attracts women to him like flies to wild honey. But the true star of Christopher Morahan's production-and, these days, of the entire National Theater-is Designer John Gunter. His garden and woodland sets provide the perfect trysting place for sobriety and anarchy, and the majestic train engine...
Discussing the outcome in the courtyard of Quincy House--the players' home for the week--the Cameroon players were even more bitter...
...with family, with her flack. Last Monday, with a trace of hard dignity and without a tear, Vanessa Williams announced that she would step down. "I wish I could retain my title," she said, but she mentioned "potential harm to the pageant and the deep, deep division that a bitter fight may cause" as reasons that she could not. So Williams became not only the first black Miss America but the first ever to abdicate. The 63-year-old pageant, beamed live from Atlantic City to more than 50 million television viewers (NBC pays $250,000 for the privilege), teetered...
...performed by the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1977, Peter Nichols' musical play was a daft and bitter satire on Britain's declining imperial fortunes. A troupe of conscripted music-hall artists bumble and camp their way through post-World War II Singapore, drawing flak from their stiff-upper-twit major and sniper fire from local guerrillas. Alternating farcical skits with wicked song parodies, Privates was a near perfect stage piece, and thus an unsuitable candidate for filming. Some of the songs are gone; the plot is attenuated and detoxified; and Director Michael Blakemore (who also staged the R.S.C...