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Word: bitterness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...pressed by Lenny to explain further, the boy states "My mother was raped" and then immediately asks Lenny if she wants to play marbles with him. The juxtaposition of extreme violence with childhood innocence highlights the senseless nature of the adults' actions. Lenny's innocence remains, however, until the bitter, heartbreaking, and violent conclusion tears away her naivet. The film ends with a flash-forward to the year 1999 and a trite voice-over by a grown-up Lenny, leaving the audience with a highly unsatisfying finish that ruins the epic quality of the film...

Author: By Bree Z. Tollinger, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Imagining India in Mehta's Earth | 10/22/1999 | See Source »

...trained in the art of bullshit--shouldn't that apply to beer drinking? At least pretend to know what you're talking about beyond Bud. Ale tends to be sweet and smooth with a higher alcohol content; Ale is probably what you know the best (read: Miller Shite); bitter is bitter; IPA is India Pale Ale and distinctively alcoholic; lager is simply aged, bottom fermented beer; pale ale ranges from mild to bitter with a dry taste; pilsners are very dry and tend to be light...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Beer, Beer, and More Beer: A Drinker's Guide to the Suds | 10/21/1999 | See Source »

...position is simple enough, and right on the ball. But it masks a simmering brew of constitutional, moral and even religious questions. Sound a lot like "Piss Christ" or Robert Mapplethorpe all over again? The same issues boiled over then, and the same issues continue to define America's bitter culture war today. While it may be tempting, therefore, for those of us who support the mayor to just render due kudos and go home, perhaps we should take advantage of this fresh opportunity to explain why he was right--maybe even to propose a just accommodation of publicly funded...

Author: By Bolek Z. Kabala, | Title: The Brooklyn Stink | 10/15/1999 | See Source »

...Representing Harvard's best, Irving Clark '39 still holds the campus record with 24 fish swallowed. Of the two dozen scaly slithery creatures swimming in his stomach, he remarked: "They're kind of bitter, but they go down easy...

Author: By Sarah L. Gore, | Title: Fifteen Minutes: (Gulp): A Brief History of Goldfish Swallowing | 10/14/1999 | See Source »

...admitted feeling "frightened and alone." After his retirement, his son-in-law Orvil Dryfoos took over. He had come to the paper from a seat on the stock exchange but had been somewhat more carefully groomed. Tragically, he died young, in 1963, when his diseased heart failed following a bitter strike that shuttered the Times for 114 days. Dryfoos' untimely death foisted the top job at the paper on young Arthur Ochs ("Punch") Sulzberger, the only son and youngest child of Arthur Hays and Iphigene Ochs Sulzberger. Punch's training and apparent aptitude were so slight that his father...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Their Lives And Times | 10/11/1999 | See Source »

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