Word: bittering
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...doesn't have to hurt. You're a bitter man for 27. I am shocked at your level of bitterness...
This fast-paced account of a bitter racial discrimination case brought by a Harvard-trained black attorney successfully evokes the tortuous ambiguities that surround efforts to integrate the professional work force through affirmative action. But it never quite answers the hard question at the heart of the story: Was Lawrence D. Mungin, the "good black" of the title, a competent lawyer who got the shaft because he was black, or a disillusioned Uncle Tom who blamed racism when his ambitions exceeded his talent? Without knowing that, it's impossible to judge the validity of Mungin's case...
...relieved when this is all over. We are exhausted from arguing with our friends and embarrassed to be associated with the likes of Tom DeLay and Bob Barr, whose hatred of the president changed the focus of this story from the president's lying to the Republicans' own bitter partisanship. It's been a very long year...
...eyed report, Earth Odyssey (Broadway Books; 372 pages; $26), backed by careful scholarship, is one of the best environmental books in recent years. It may help save readers the trouble of living through ecological decline and fall, if enough of them figure out how and where to apply its bitter lessons...
Last week SIR ANTHONY HOPKINS called acting a "tiresome, disturbing and distasteful" profession, not to mention a "complete waste of time." Apparently years of accolades, knighting ceremonies and Academy Awards have left Tony a little bitter. In an interview with the British tabloid News of the World, Hopkins announced he was "getting out of this ridiculous business," adding that "acting is bad for the mental health." Once a mainstay of Merchant-Ivory productions, Hopkins has more recently appeared in such claptrap as the critically reviled Meet Joe Black. He says his project Titus Andronicus, currently filming in Rome, will...