Word: bitter
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From the moment of his intensely dramatic entrance--bounding through the Library's window--to the bitter end, Thornley delivers the play's best performance and has the only credible British accent of the bunch. Thornley holds his own against the many professional actors with whom Christie fans are sure to be familiar. He brilliantly interrogates the other characters in the play's many drawing room scenes...
...mailed ballots to be considered for election at the Academy's annual meeting, held yesterday in Washington. But at the meeting a challenge to his nomination was raised, and his election was blocked after a floor fight before 530 NAS members that one Academy member said went to the "bitter...
...part requires, nonetheless gives a spotty performance. In some scenes, she performs with passionate intensity; in others, particularly the opening scene, she delivers her lines with remarkable flatness. Morris fails to convey the difference between being cold and being unemotional. But she does succeed in capturing the play's bitter spirit, in drawing the audience into the problems of the relationship...
...millions of households around the world Jews are celebrating the Passover holiday. Following an ancient ritual, after sundown on Monday evening they sit down at the Seder table to retell the story of the Jewish exodus from slavery in Egypt. They recall their ancestors' tears with salt water and bitter herbs and eat a sweet concoction of nuts, apple and wine to commemorate the mortar with which slaves once cemented bricks. The anguish of captivity is recounted in the text of the Haggadah, and the joy of freedom celebrated with song...
...that, comes a bitter and very public dispute between the leaders of the country's national unity government about the next step in Middle East diplomacy. Both Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir, head of the Likud bloc, and Foreign Minister Shimon Peres, the Labor Party leader, are increasingly worried that Israelis will judge the government's greatest failure to be its inability to achieve a breakthrough in relations with its Arab neighbors. Yet the two men are at loggerheads over a peace strategy. Shamir holds out for direct talks, maintaining that the only way to guarantee enduring peace is to negotiate...