Word: bitterness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...moreover, made in vain: abandoned by the Germans, who are losing, and cheated by fellow Belorussians, who are maneuvering for postwar advantage, he becomes a fugitive. The family breaks up, but he and some of his clan finally fetch up in Australia, where they live on scraps of bitter memory and paranoid imaginings of a comparably tumultuous future. Although they appear to be part of the vast middle-class world in their adopted country, there is an untouchable inwardness in their spirits, and eventually they retreat into armed-survivalist hysteria...
...polo fields. But then, doesn't everybody?" said Ferguson's mum, Susan Barrantes, who left home when Sarah was 14 and married an Argentine polo player. (There is some chat about whether he will get a wedding invitation, since Andrew saw action against his countrymen during the bitter war over the Falklands...
Chris Lambert plays Connor MacLeod, a Scotsman born in the 1500's who finds out that he's one of the world's few immortal beings. In the 16th century, he's the naive Luke Skywalker type. In modern Manhattan, he's the boss, with a bitter sense of humor that only four centuries of fighting and living in the fast lane could produce...
...heroin and marijuana have declined somewhat, but cocaine now flows into the U.S. from Latin America at a rate of roughly 125 tons a year, compared with about 58 tons in 1982. "Despite the rhetorical bravado and a few highly publicized successes, the U.S. effort has been a bitter disappointment," says Ted Galen Carpenter, a foreign-policy expert at the Cato Institute, a Washington research organization...
...Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, which has been called Long Night's Journey Into Day, carries us through the fun and games of boozy, castrating Martha, daughter of a small-college president, and her bitter husband George, who is "in the History Department instead of being the History Department." At 2:30 a.m., George and Martha have visitors, a miscast Aaron Carlos as up-and-coming young biologist, Nick, and his mousy wife Honey, brilliantly acted by Jane Loranger...