Word: bitter
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Even if that much is granted, Romano's rhetorical conceit has brought dozens of mostly angry letters to the Nation, demands for an apology from two men's antirape groups and an escalating campaign of bitter counterpunching from MacKinnon and her supporters. "Carlin Romano should be held accountable for what he did," MacKinnon threatened last week in the Washington Post. "There are a lot of people out there, and a lot of ways that can be done...
Altogether, it seems as if the President, the First Lady and their aides have forgotten everything they learned about damage control during the bitter campaign of 1992. Old Washington hands point out that suspicions of hiding a scandal usually hurt a President far more than the scandal itself. That seems especially true in this case. The affairs of Whitewater and its partners -- the Clintons, James McDougal, the owner of a failed Arkansas savings and loan, and his wife Susan -- were so convoluted that they defy quick summary. Even the questions that the dealings raise are too complex...
...Neill's family hugged in the bitter wind as pall-bearers carried his flag-draped coffin up the church steps...
...arrival of bitter cold and the first Nor'easter of the year marks the true beginning of winter for most New Englanders...
...conventions of all three films are exposed. They mean to shock and then inspire, with the revelation that good people can triumph. They amount to a tiny ray of Hollywood sunshine in the storm of 20th century chaos. While seeming to look clearly at the world, they ignore the bitter, deprived existences of most people who live in it: in Ukraine or Ireland or Vietnam, or in the death camp of an AIDS ward...