Word: bitter
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...important matter of principle is involved. The role of the press in a democracy is crucial in sustaining an informed electorate. It is for this reason that the press enjoys certain exceptional rights. But it must not ignore the responsibilities that accompany them. When the public learns, through bitter experience, to doubt the accuracy and honesty of the press, a heavy blow is dealt to democracy and to the social contract upon which it is based, and the foundations of the future freedom of the press are weakened. It seems to me that the moral obligations of the press...
...tired Harvard team that dropped the opener, 6-0, before coming back in the nightcap, 6-1, at Princeton Monday. What other explanation can there be for Tiger Steve Kordish's two-bitter in the opener? Kordish, then 2-4, faced a squad that boasts a .310 team batting average and produces almost eight runs per game. Even a curve ball that consistently finds the strike zone and a fast ball to back it up don't appear enough to stop a lineup like Harvard's under normal conditions...
...Peking is bitter about U.S. restrictions on the export of high technology and quotas on China's textile imports. Even though Reagan loosened the technology controls last year, China resents that it is still in a more restrictive category than India, which, Peking points out, has close ties to the Soviets. Failure to reach agreement on the amount of Chinese textiles that could be sold in the U.S. resulted in the quota's being frozen at the 1982 level...
Rockaby is a beautifully written monologue whose excruciatingly bitter message becomes very hard to endure even in such a short performance. Owen rocks herself to death, coordinating her rocking with the rhthym of her repetitive, sing-song phrases. "In the end, the day came, time she stopped going to and fro, high and low..." As she rocks more and more violently, and finally falls over, the repetition becomes unbearable. Yet the play also has a peaceful quality which, when juxtaposed against the underlying suicidal throbbing, stimulates the imagination. Although the director provides little in the form of lighting or props...
Afghanistan was invaded by Soviet troops four years ago and ever since has been the site of a bitter struggle between the guerillas and the combined Soviet and Afghani armies...