Word: bitterness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...decision to make the character more hysterical from the outset was mine as well. I have studied this play for four years now, and I firmly believe that Dutchman is anything but a subtle play, and Lula is anything but a realistic, "normal" character. She is most certainly not "bitter" as Leland asserts, because bitterness connotes a certain victimization, and Lula is a victimizer, not a victim...
...know the fans of the Blue Jays. I am one of the many in existence, all across Canada. Greene grew up as a Baltimore Orioles fan. Is there a slight chance she could be bitter about the O's collapse at the end of the 1992 season...
...changes in GM's bottom line were nothing compared with the changes at the top. After months of bitter skirmishing with GM's board of directors, chairman and CEO Robert Stempel finally quit. It was Detroit's bloodiest boardroom drama since Henry Ford fired Lee Iacocca in 1978, and it marked a turning point for the once mighty U.S. manufacturer now struggling to reinvent itself...
...Bitter Harmonies
...other kinds of burdens are hard to calculate. "The whole financial-aid process can make you bitter," says Marie-Helene Grabman of Charlotte, North Carolina, whose daughter Genevieve hoped to go to Duke. Genevieve's father Michael is a construction manager with income in the low 60s. In reaching their aid offers, Duke and other schools did not to take into account Marie- Helene's own expenses for full-time college study to further develop a % career, or that Michael's diabetes meant the family should set aside medical contingency funds. Complains Michael: "I feel we were punished for saving...