Word: bitter
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...view that thought cannot be contained and if we live in a free atmosphere, opinions shall balance each other and logic shall prevail. Without freedom, the thought sparkling in the minds of thinkers shall be channeled into hidden communities and may emerge one day in the form of bitter and violent reaction...
...Congressional District, which sent Uncle J.F.K. to Washington in 1946. Joe's planned run for Governor this year was derailed by the baby-sitter problems of his brother and campaign manager Michael. That scandal aggravated a political atmosphere already soured by Shattered Faith, his first wife's bitter best seller about the annulment of their 12-year marriage...
...their bonds as an ensemble and the fact that while Robert Wright still has a job, Michael Richards, for one, soon won't. Complicating things further was the fact that Richards, Alexander and Louis-Dreyfus had only recently received huge raises after a much publicized and, by some accounts, bitter holdout before the start of the current season. Their meeting took place Dec. 17 in Seinfeld's dressing room, where the cast traditionally assembles before the last taping of the calendar year to take stock of things. "It was pretty heavy, pretty wild," recalls Louis-Dreyfus. "There were no tears...
...supporting roles fare better. Williams's Abby, though mainly an ornament, is one tough, no-nonsense woman. She's pragmatic ("As far as you know, you have good semen? I'm only asking because I want you to get me pregnant."), resourceful (she nurses the wounded Postman through a bitter winter with nothing but leaves, water and a couple of bowls of horse soup), and a much better fighter than the Postman (she's deadly accurate with an AR-15). To the story's detriment, her character fades into obscurity in the film's latter half. Larenz Tate does...
Early in Julie Johnson, the title character's best friend declares "I feel like I don't even know you!" An outburst both of bitter sarcasm and exposed honesty, this declaration epitomizes the humanizing impetus of the play: the need for understanding and the overwhelming alienation of suburban life. In the last full production offered by the HRDC this semester, a small company presented a probing exploration of a middle-class home-maker in her quest to regain control over her own life and come to grips with herself...