Word: bitter
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rehearsals for Cats and La Cage aux Folles gave me other insights and an insider's appreciation for the sweat and hopes channeled into every Broadway opening. I also learned the price tag for attending film screenings: no matter how bad the film, everyone must stay till the bitter...
...ANNUAL SPRINGTIME orgy of divestiture activity has begun again, along with the name-calling that accompanies it. Once again, President Bok and his colleagues on the Corporation are being subjected to bitter and vicious ad hominem attacks...
...interview, Cox said, "for my part. Harvard has treated me far better than I deserved and I'm devoted to Harvard." Cox added that he is not bitter about retirement from Harvard, saying in fact he is grateful to Harvard for allowing him to teach for two years beyond the mandatory retirement...
...Darryl. Our leader. Our redeemer from Eastwick ennui." His ample house gives their new-found senses of identity room to burgeon: "In Van Home's realm they left their children behind and became children themselves." This is where the action is, Sukie muses, "not here in town, where bitter water lapped the pilings and placed a shudder of reflected light upon the haggard faces of the citizens of Eastwick as they plodded through their civic and Christian duties...
...ends in the psychosomatic equivalent of a heart attack. That is not, perhaps, the stuff of box-office comedy, and, as a portrait of Hollywood, it seems less satire than neorealism. Yet by the final fadeout, Josh Greenfeld's novel turns out to be both uproariously funny and bitter as wormwood...