Word: bitter
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Mickey Sabbath is a washed-up street performer--for a brief long-ago moment the darling of the New York agitprop scene, now self-exiled in New Hampshire, financially dependent upon his equally bitter second wife. With the death of his Croatian mistress, Sabbath loses the thread of his miserable life, and sets off on a micro-odyssey with no real object...
Though the novel lacks a certain resolution, the character of Sabbath makes spectacular progress in the 48 hours around which the story--like dart-a-cars set up in the dining room--swoops in its looping trajectory. Whether Sabbath, wronged and wronging, bitter and bold and mean can go on is unclear. Roth has corralled a teeming, obscene, dwindling life, and that is enough...
Norbu looked frightened, as well he should. With the turn of a golden urn and a handshake, he became a central figure in what promises to be a long and bitter war between Tibet and a communist government determined to retain control of the troublesome province, right up to choosing its top religious leaders. For six years, China had insisted on its authority to select the Panchen Lama. But in May, following ancient Tibetan custom and practices, the Dalai Lama announced that he had chosen six-year-old Gedhun Choekyi Nyima as the new Panchen Lama. Officials in Beijing were...
...other side, of course. That's the spin that both President Clinton and Republican leaders put on the compromise that formally reopened the Federal Government after a bitter six-day budgetary impasse. Republicans gloated that the deal commits the President to a seven-year time frame for a balanced budget. The President and his aides happily pointed out that the agreement requires Congress to respect White House priorities on such matters as Medicare, education, environmental protection and taxes...
...PERILS OF THE SIMPLE LIFE'' [SOCIETY, Nov. 6] was a sarcastic, bitter and misleading denigration of a positive, empowering and growing movement toward living a less complicated life. Simplicity isn't just a "new fad,'' but its time may have come. A growing number of people are realizing that working more, earning more, doing more and owning more do not result in greater happiness or an increased sense of well-being. It's been said, "We are spending money we don't have to buy things we don't need to impress people we don't like.'' Voluntary simplicity, living...