Word: bitter
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...terrible questions. The first is asked by the teammate's small son, who looks at the casket and says, "Is my daddy in there?" The second is the query of a friendly sportswriter who asks whether the pitcher realizes he may never recapture his skill. "Yes" is the bitter double answer. Smoke, indeed, from a fireballing phenom...
...explore a dark corner of American life. For many police officers who fear that the incident could undermine their image of cool professionalism, the case quickly became an occasion for dismay, soul searching and a measure of defensiveness. For many citizens, particularly blacks and other minorities, it brought back bitter memories of their own rough encounters with police. George Bush bluntly summarized the prevailing shock: "What I saw made me sick...
...holiday by Arizona voters. Miami is still suffering from a boycott by blacks incensed over the city's snubbing last summer of Nelson Mandela. Economic damage to date: $5.4 million. When the San Francisco board of supervisors declared the city a sanctuary for Persian Gulf war resisters, it drew bitter complaints from hundreds of angry convention managers and tourists. The controversial tactic seems to be having some effect. Faced with the possible loss of the Super Bowl in 1993, the Arizona legislature last week agreed to put the King holiday back on the election ballot...
...into Kuwait was catastrophic. If the King looked at his situation clearly and not defensively, he would see that backing Saddam was sheer folly. Jordan, bereft of financial support, is depressed and dangerously unstable. Gross national product is down 50%. The population of 3 million -- 60% Palestinian -- teems with bitter, unemployed citizens and dispossessed gulf refugees. Anti-American chants in the streets of Amman will soon turn into cries for revenge. But abdication and exile are not the King's only means of escape. A far more honorable course is still open...
...might seem to be just another pretty retelling of a familiar triangle: a young woman, her elderly husband and her lover. Ju Dou plays like Phaedra mixed with The Postman Always Rings Twice -- until the woman bears a son who grows ripe with vengeance, and the movie becomes a bitter Bad Seed...