Word: bitter
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...spectacle was hardly edifying to Washington. For most of a decade, the U.S. made Nicaragua a prime ideological battleground, spending hundreds of millions of dollars, enduring bitter domestic debate and engaging in illegal- arms deals to face down Managua's Soviet-backed rulers. Only the end of the cold war prompted the two superpowers to bow out. Americans thought Nicaragua's problems were solved when Violeta Barrios de Chamorro was elected President in early...
FILM NOIR, THAT '40S HOLLYWOOD style of bitter men, treacherous women and slicing shadows, is making spectral appearances on cable TV this summer. But noir is easier to evoke than it is to revive. Fallen Angels, Showtime's series of short films, errs in thinking the genre is all venetian blinds and overhead fans. For a sharper rear view, check out The Wrong Man. Director Jim McBride (The Big Easy) and writers Roy Carlson and Michael Thoma have the inside word on noir. It isn't a look but a vision -- a bleak take on life and its evil twin...
...auto accident, but the opposite side is pure Mel Gibson, handsome and, you'll be relieved to know, getting most of the screen time. It symbolizes, pretty obviously, a deeper split in his personality, the unmarked side representing the idealistic young teacher he once was, the twisted side the bitter recluse he has become...
...verdict was a bitter disappointment for New York district attorney Robert Morgenthau, whose early zeal was a driving force behind the July 1991 seizure of the bank. Despite the setback, however, his investigation to date has yielded convictions of B.C.C.I. and its principal front man, indictments of its key executives, and forfeitures totaling $750 million...
...familiar itinerary for ambitious singers of a certain age. At 44, Billy Joel has some lovely hardware: platinum albums and a shelfful of Grammys. He has a model wife (Christie Brinkley) and a daughter (Alexa, 7) worth crooning to sleep. Joel also has his share of bitter lawsuits, including one against his former father-in-law. So maybe he's got a right to sing some blues. He surely had the itch to write a song cycle; he is, after all, the last, finest heir to the songwriter tradition of soulful...