Word: bitter
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Summers and Herrington moved through the crowd shouting through bullhorns "things like, 'We're not going to leave you. Don't worry about it,'" as Summers recalls. "And we believed it at the time, which made it more bitter at the end." The officers formed the Vietnamese into groups of about 60 to be loaded aboard the helicopters that were landing on the roof and in the courtyard. During daylight, officers set off colored smoke bombs to help helicopter pilots locate the embassy. After dark, Herrington rigged up a different system. He found an old carousel slide projector, mounted...
...really quite charming entertainment. Treachery, of course, adds a subtle spice to purely physical violence. Caton-Jones may overdo the characterization a bit, but Roth's performance steals the show, no doubt about it. Lucky Archie, thankfully unkilted, gets some juicy background to play on. He is a bitter bastard son, his possible fathers narrowed down to three. The material may be good, but it is Roth's control of cold eye and practiced diction which earn him the respect of the audience...
Harvard got its first licks at real competition Friday night against Brown, and the Crimson left the pool with a bitter taste...
There was a long, bitter winter filled with snow and ice. Then, at some arbitrary point, winter became summer--passing over the idea of spring altogether...
Welles' talent for aging into the bitter, declining Kane is truly remarkable. And as the young Kane, full of fire and utopian spirit, he is unstoppable. Sweeping through the staid New York Inquirer, the young man announces that the paper is to enter a new era, "If the headline is big enough, it makes the news big enough!" Kane soon proves that his new journalism sells--that he can fight for the downtrodden while boosting his circulation; that he can create wars with a run of his press; and power in the world can't bring him what he wants...