Word: bitterness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...while most schools have canceled classes in honor of this great holiday--including that vocational school down the river--Harvard has chosen to play the Tory. Perhaps Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and Brit Jeremy R. Knowles is a little bitter. Regardless, it is a shame that the only area festivity in which we'll partake is the Loker fly-by. Listen to the children of Harvard and you won't hear the midnight of Paul Revere...
...roots of Kosovo's continuing chaos are, of course, strategic. They arise from Milosevic's aims and the long, bitter history of the Balkans. But in a practical sense, they also have to do with the very specific problem of fighting a day-to-day guerrilla war in a hilly country, where camouflage is easy and offensive operation hard. Kosovo's mountains stretch up nearly 9,000 ft., and the snow-clogged highlands are almost completely underdeveloped, with few four-wheel-drive tracks and no roads. The only modes of transport are donkeys and feet--a kind of primitiveness that...
...give Joffe the benefit of the doubt: enough points to a very bitter, saddening satire behind the entertainment, particularly the film's wrap-up, which takes the idea of a know-it-all detective to one logical conclusion. A persistent dialogue between camera movements and angles also suggests more (and I'm not just talking about how every other scene starts with Arquette's legs and moves up). And Mulrooney's conflicted character gives us an occasional flash of honest hope: a P.R. exec in his brother's firm, he cannot stop wisecracking about the hypocrisy and yet, weak, himself...
DuBois raised $125,000 for such an encyclopedia, but the idea was ultimately cancelled when he was labeled too radical. Bitter at this and other failed enterprises, DuBois emigrated to Ghana at the end of his life...
...would have needed more spin doctors than there are in Bill Clinton's staff to pluck optimism from the bitter New England spring...