Word: bitter
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...Minister Goh Kun will assume the deposed leader's duties until Roh's fate is decided by a special Constitutional Court, which has six months to decide whether the National Assembly's decision should stand. If it does, a new presidential election will be held, which could mark a bitter and premature end to Roh's political career. Meanwhile, South Korea's armed forces went on alert on the off chance that North Korea might try to exploit the political turmoil. The U.S. State Department would say only that it's watching developments "carefully," while Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi...
...film clips and installations, the show covers two centuries of this circus lineup, as envisioned by 83 artists including Goya, Ensor, Klee, Beckmann, Dix, Picasso, Bonnard, Hopper, Freud, Robert Capa and Diane Arbus. It's a perilous leap from Chardin's delightful The Monkey Painter and Toulouse-Lautrec's bitter yellow La Clownesse Cha-U-Kao to video artist Pierrick Sorin's ad nauseam Pie Fight, but like Paris itself, there is something for just about everyone in this three-ring show. There are few real self-portraits in "The Grand Parade," but the lack should be filled...
...with Anstee - tarnished by Anstee's jealousy and Gielgud's insistence that "I can't really share my life completely with anybody." Finally, true love arrives with a Hungarian, Martin Hensler, and Gielgud's letters become saturated with a new, blissful sense of mutual dependence. It makes for a bitter end when, after Gielgud has seen most of his friends die, Hensler succumbs to a "really horrendous" battle with cancer. After the richest of lives, the nonagenarian's final letter movingly depicts the ravages of age: "Everything is such an effort and I have to be helped around still...
...liars. It’s a message that dovetails nicely with the film’s in-your-face easygoingness, but one that seems distastefully simpleminded near the start of an election year that is likely to be one of America’s most ugliest and most bitter...
With 31 flavors, it’s no surprise that Baskin Robbins offers two different liquor-flavored options. First we tried the Rum Raisin, which was so foul-tasting that even Captain Morgan himself wouldn’t be able to stomach it. Offering the bitter kick of a shot of 151 without any of the high-proof rewards, this flavor is only recommended for the most masochistic. Baskin Robbins’ other offering, however, proved delicious. Conjuring images of spring break and beach-side bars, their Margarita Ice flavor was as good as the real thing. Without the nagging...