Word: bitter
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Bradley, "what I'm doing is not about candidacy. The book is something I had to do for my soul." That may be all it's good for, notes TIME's John Elson. "Bradley writes about his Senate colleagues so blandly that even North Carolina's Jesse Helms, a bitter ideological foe, gets praised for being 'courtly.'" Never an accomplished orator, Bradley is scarcely more convincing a writer. "The book is outrageously padded with long lists that gobble up lines without clarifying issues," Elson says. "It's not enough for Bradley merely to mention the nation's polluted industrial rivers...
...those waters seem bitter to some--cops who can't take Comstat's pressure, black and Latino leaders who say some of Bratton's cops carry his aggressive style too far--"that's too damn bad," says Bratton. Success isn't pretty, even for his troops. Effective precinct commanders such as Lawrence (crime was down 15% in his precinct in 1995) merely get grilled to a medium rare at Comstat. Those who show up unprepared, without coherent strategies to reduce crime, are fried crisp, then stripped of their commands. Half of all precinct bosses have been replaced under Bratton. Those...
...story that Moraes--nicknamed the Moor by his parents--most urgently wants to tell is how his "happy childhood in Paradise" ended in a bitter exile decreed by his mother Aurora da Gama Zogoiby, a famous painter and one of India's most controversial women. But since he is literally writing for time, the Moor throws in a whole lot more: everything he has heard or can remember or dream up about his mother's family. The eccentric and marvelously fractious Da Gamas trace their lineage, perhaps incorrectly, to the Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama, who was the first European...
...like a bitter saccharine after taste, the disputes of last fall-centering on the appointment of a new dean of public service--may linger far after the reasons that inspired restructuring have been forgotten...
...that might leave a bitter aftertaste lasting not only for a semester, but for years.HARVARD UNIVERSITY...