Word: bitter
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Such dire results of the Bolshevik coup are what make it so delightful to observe the bitter realities now facing the world's remaining Marxist regimes. Along the southern coast of the People's Republic of China, near Hong Kong, an outburst of capitalism is taking place. And the Miami police force has enacted a working plan to handle celebrations to follow the overthrow of Fidel Castro...
Then there is the breathless reverence for all things American. Now that the U.S. has arrived, Somalis expect miracles to follow. If the U.S. fails to satisfy at least some of those hopes, there will be bitter recriminations from both sides for a long time to come...
...early 1980s. "((Carey)) is basically an insecure guy who does not want anybody supervising what he's doing," says Lacey. "It's the same dance, but with different partners. Instead of McCarthy, it's Carey. But at least it's done to an Irish tune," he adds with a bitter laugh...
...Best I" is a very coherent and well-chosen collection; the selected songs merge together and support each other very well. The album starts with the warbling navel-gazing of "This Charming Man" and then spirals upwards into increasingly light-headed images of crumbling self-control and bitter amusement...
...Marshall Mason and set designer Marjorie Bradley Kellogg, the first act takes place outdoors, by a lake where Arkadina humiliates her son in his first artistic venture. Although the action gradually moves indoors, the trees never disappear. They stand throughout at the stage's edge, silent sentinels recalling the bitter moment that brings on all the play's ruin...