Word: bitterness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bitter, emotional, two-month campaign culminated in a bloody, controversial balloting. At least 30 people were reported killed, most of them by gunfire. There were reports of intimidation, vote buying, ballotbox switching and other irregularities...
...Faberge's rare masterpieces, or rather what looks like one, is now the subject of a bitter legal battle that has scandalized the art-sales world. The combatants are Eskandar Aryeh, an Iranian-born millionaire who has filed a $37 million suit, and Christie's, the renowned London-based auction house...
...have never recovered. A turbulent legal squabble among team executives, together with a devastating series of bitter contract disputes, left the team in ruins...
...film tries to show how dad's deflating marriage makes daughter Sunny rethink her own marriage to an unemployed steel worker. We don't see much reevaluation/reconsideration going on, just a lot of bitter recrimination and vociferous shouting matches between Sunny and her father, climaxing in the staple confrontation scene, as initiated by Sunny, between the three members of the romantic triangle...
...there was no chance that the West German government, which backed this show, would agree to send souvenirs of a bitter past to England; and even less that its various corporate underwriters would want their coffee, cars and airliners associated with Nazi imagery. So those flaxen-haired Madchens, village scenes and straining athletes are fated to crouch in the basement of art history, invested with a diabolic aura that in the light of common day would shrivel. They may be sodden kitsch, but to claim they are not a significant part of German cultural history is wishful thinking...