Word: bitter
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...framework invariably paints a black-and-white picture of the person it seeks to portray. To Huffington, Picasso was a destroyer and his art a negation of human values. Her evidence for this, however, is not drawn from the vast body of Picasso's works; it comes from the bitter testimony of the artist's former lovers and friends. His sex life, it would seem, was the expression of Picasso's true soul...
...point that "these rigid spirits are the first to fall." Referring to the stubborn will of his neice, who insists on burying her brother despite Creon's prohibition against doing so, the prophecy warns that if Antigone cannot become flexible in her religious philosophy, she will meet a bitter...
...success has now given him a happier memory of Making Love, but in 1986, when he talked to the Washington Post, Hamlin was still bitter about the shadow it had cast over his life. "A guy can play an ax murderer and still be considered sexy and still get another role as a leading man," he said then. "But if you play a homosexual, suddenly you're not in contention anymore for the ax murderers...
...Middle East proposing peace can be a dangerous move. That lesson was forcefully driven home last week when bitter feuding broke out among Palestinian factions over an unusually conciliatory statement written by Bassam Abu Sharif, chief spokesman for Palestine Liberation Organization Chairman Yasser Arafat. Abu Sharif's key proposals: 1) direct negotiations between the P.L.O. and Israel over a future Palestinian state, and 2) a referendum in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip to prove that their Palestinian populations recognize the P.L.O. as their legitimate representative...
...Handful of Dust. He poured his grief at the dissolution of his first marriage into this tale of how dimly amoral Brenda Last cuckolded her dimly moral husband Tony. Waugh managed to cast a cold, wickedly glittering eye on these foolish innocents, and to write about them with bitter, controlled irony. Both suppressing and drawing upon fury and bathos, he produced a masterpiece...