Word: bitterness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...imprisoned for his human-rights activism during the reign of Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, making Bazargan a natural choice for Prime Minister of the provisional government formed after the Shah fled in 1979. But Bazargan's relationship with the Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini's Revolutionary Council soon deteriorated into a bitter power struggle, culminating in his resignation just nine months later...
TheO.J. Simpson trialwas thrown into chaos today because of the illness of one prosecutor and a bitter back-and-forth between attorneys on both sides regarding an eleventh-hour witness list submitted by the defense. Deputy District Attorney Christopher Darden denounced the list as a roster of "heroin addicts, thieves, felons and . . . a court-certified pathological liar." Prosecutor William Hodgman was hospitalized last evening, complaining of chest pains; he is still in the hospital. Judge Lance Ito noted that Hodgman appeared extremely disturbed as defense attorneys announced the new witnesses yesterday. "I've known him as a colleague...
...Internet's newsgroups suggests that any tendencies toward convergence will have some real gaps to bridge. There's alt.politics.greens, alt.politics.libertarian, alt.politics.radical-left, alt.fan.dan-quayle, alt.politics.nationalism.white, alt.fan.g-gordon-liddy, alt.rush-limbaugh.die.a .flaming.death. In a nation that has trouble fixing its attention on the public good and is facing increasingly bitter cultural wars, this is not a wholly encouraging glimpse of the future. There's no alt.transcendent.public.interest in sight...
...continuous loop. Minneapolis U.S. Attorney David Lillehaug charged on Thursday that Qubilah Shabazz, 34, had for seven months negotiated with a hit man for a murder and had in fact moved to Minnesota to make a down payment on the crime. Her alleged target: Louis Farrakhan, the bitter rival of her father Malcolm X, who was murdered...
Grant, a pro-choice conservative who can be gracious to guests and rapacious to callers, got a dose of his own malice last fall. Frank Lautenberg, the New Jersey Democratic Senator who was in a bitter race with Republican and frequent Grant guest Chuck Haytaian, ran ads stating that "Grant calls blacks savages, and called Martin Luther King a scumbag." A tri-state ruckus ensued, with New Jersey Republican Governor Christine Whitman declaring she would no longer appear on Grant's show and citizens calling for the host's scalp and other body parts. But all the heat didn...