Word: bitter
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Those survivors who spoke to TIME are in anything but a fighting mood. They seem too occupied with absorbing their fate to plot a next move. Says Karim, the colonel: "This is very bitter. I am 39. I was brought up with Saddam's regime. I may not have liked it, but I had plans--to buy a house--and suddenly everything changed. The future is dark." Azed, the captain who ran from Suwayrah, sits in his uncle's house in Baghdad, smoking cigarettes and drinking tea. "What happened shocked everyone," he says. "We had heard about the resistance from...
...attend the Beverly Hills, 90210 10-year high school--reunion show, airing on Fox May 11, because "she's moved on," her publicist says. Some press reports, however, have said the daughter of series creator Aaron Spelling is angry that Fox won't give her a pilot and bitter toward tempestuous former co-star Shannen Doherty, who is appearing on the program. The reunion will include interviews with Jason Priestley, Luke Perry, Doherty and others talking about their auditions and "what the show has meant for establishing their careers as successful actors," according to a Fox press release. That part...
...Europe for her alternately smooth and gravelly tones, majestic stage presence and maverick opinions. Bristling at mainstream pop-music labels, Simone called her music "black classical" and embraced African folk, gospel, jazz and show tunes. An influential voice in the civil rights movement--she wrote Mississippi Goddam, a bitter response to the murder of Medgar Evers and a church bombing, and the anthem Young, Gifted and Black--she left the U.S. in 1973 and settled in France...
Hart said his speech, entitled “Respecting the Future,” was motivated by the bitter debates that have occurred on campus in recent memory...
...artifacts at the museum marked the beginning of what we conventionally call ‘civilization,’” wrote Professor of History of Art and Architecture Jeffrey Hamburger, a specialist in medieval manuscripts. “The bitter irony, of course, is that the war itself was fought in the name of supposedly civilized values...