Word: bitter
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Reaction to Fried's confirmation was mixed, ranging from bitter disappointment among liberals to relief in the Weld administration...
Charles Fried, Carter professor of general jurisprudence at Harvard Law School, was narrowly confirmed two weeks ago to the highest court in Massachusetts after a bitter four-month battle...
...author's strength is her unfailing immediacy of language, which illuminated her fine previous novel Stones from the River. Her scenes, as character grates on troubled character, are real and vivid; they command attention. But the book's structure might have been designed by a committee to illustrate how bitter, unresolved childhood memories can be coped with. (Hegi's dedication is "For my women's group"; is there a clue here...
Nearly 200,000 Serb refugees streamed out of the Krajina region in Croatia after the territory was retaken from the Serbs by Croatian forces. As joyous Croats celebrated, bitter Serbs denounced Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic, whom they faulted for not coming to their aid. Yugoslav officials, struggling to cope with the huge influx of refugees, announced plans to send thousands of them to Kosovo, a region that is 90% ethnic Albanian and that many fear will be the next Balkan powder...
...Schuster; 235 pages; $22) of child abuse and parental desertion. The author's strengths -- an unfailing immediacy of language and real, vivid scenes that command attention -- are all on display. But the book's structure, saysTIME's John Skow, "might have been designed by a committee to illustrate how bitter, unresolved childhood memories can be coped with." What we're left with is a plot straight out of a bad soap opera, and even a writer as gifted as Hegi can't dress it up as anything else...