Word: bitter
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...dispute our laughter we are drawn into the lives of the Zinn sisters. The reason for the parody remains between the stock descriptions of lovely laces as Oates gives us glimpses into the bitter reality of women's lives before the turn of the century. But she does it without a moment of didacticism making A Bloodsmoor Romance excel equally in simple entertainment...
...rerun of a bitter political contest whose first round was fought in 1978. Then as now, the Democratic gubernatorial primary in Massachusetts featured Michael Dukakis against Edward King. In both elections the incumbent lost. But four years ago, it was Challenger King who upset Governor Dukakis, while last week the deposed Dukakis, 48, won the nomination away from Governor King, 54% to 46%. It was also the state's costliest campaign ever: Dukakis spent $2 million, King $3 million. Dukakis' Republican opponent in November, also nominated last week, will be John Winthrop Sears, 51, a well...
...portrait: one vast, remarkable family, with genetic similarities more noticeable than the vagrant differences in individual ambition, audacity or achievement. Each sibling carries his or her own snapshots: the weary hostility that spills across a kitchen table in The Merchant of Four Seasons; the riff of revenge in The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant when a quiet young woman walks out on her longtime dominatrix to the bluesy strains of The Great Pretender; the logger-heading of fear and desire in a dozen Fassbinder movies, where the lighting is lurid, the sound track crackles with tinny music and drunken...
...finish with Castro; he correctly insisted that the real issue in the crisis was with the Soviet government, and that the one vital bone of contention was the secret and deceit-covered movement of Soviet missiles into Cuba. He recognized that an invasion by U.S. forces would be bitter and bloody, and that it would leave festering wounds in the body politic of the Western Hemisphere. The no-invasion assurance was not a concession, but a statement of our own clear preference-once the missiles were withdrawn...
...adage about politics and bed-fellows rang true yet again this week, when Edward J. King supported Michael S. Dukakis in his quest to become Massachusetts' next governor. The bitter ideological and personal rivalry goes back to 1978, when King unseated Dukakis--who was governor at the time--in the Democratic primary. At a Statehouse press conference Thursday. King announced. "I will support the Democratic ticket. Michael Dukakis is on that ticket." The lame duck governor went on to say he would not campaign in the next five weeks...