Word: bitterness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...campaign has got bitter in recent days. The same-sex marriage advocates occasionally demonize their opponents as Christian conservatives in thrall to Pat Robertson. But Rosehill is a lapsed Protestant whose daughter is a lesbian. ("I want her to have every civil right," says Rosehill. "But same-sex marriage is not a civil right.") Rosehill says her side can win without resorting to explicitly anti-gay rhetoric, and she says she told the national Christian Coalition she wouldn't work with a local affiliate group she found "homophobic." Still, the campaign's most quoted and colorful character is strategist Michael...
...please let me not hear from bitter Yankee haters who have spent their shriveled lives missing the Brooklyn Dodgers, or from Boston fans who make bad poetry of the beauty of losing. The Yanks did not lose a series for 23 regular-season series. They were leading in the game for 47 straight games. They outscored opponents by a total of 300 runs...
...Durang's parents, and of the difficult years he had growing up in a less-than-perfect family. Along with a stream of stillborns, Durang drags onstage a number of horrifying events which would normally only be fodder for serious family dramas (including alcoholic fathers, sexist inlaws, overbearing mothers, bitter siblings, ruined holidays, ineffective counseling, desperate mothers and the death of aging parents), shows them in all their horrible glory, and manages to somehow leave the audience in stitches...
Durang doesn't merely display the horrible sides of his family for the sake of bitter comedy, however. The comedy of Bette and Boo is rather an obviously serious and sometimes clinical attempt to work through serious topics with large amounts of therapeutic laughter. The real majesty of Durang's technique is that in the middle of busting a communal gut, the audience simultaneously feels a profound need to cry. At the funniest moments, the audience cannot help but deeply sympathize with the profound desperation and despair of the characters...
Yankees fans rejoiced in the team's first World Series sweep since 1950, while the University resounded with the cheers of ecstatic New Yorkers, the jeers of deeply saddened Padres fans, and the ambivalence of Bostonians, who remained bitter that the Red Sox did not make it past the playoffs...