Word: bitterness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...didn't want to do any kind of literary writing," he claims. Yet literary writing seems only fit for Clark, who describes the conception of this novel in terms of the imagery of its opening scene--"a train, and a man in this train, speeding along in the bitter winter in an amber light...
These lyrics of both rappers seem eerily prescient in the wake of their murders. Both men were obsessed with death. Tupac repeatedly stated in interviews and on his records that he believed that he would die early. His last album, released posthumously under the alias Makaveli, features bitter and furious death threats aimed at New York rappers, including Biggie Smalls. Biggie also indicated that he feared and perhaps expected an early death. His first album was titled "Ready to Die;" his second album, "Life After Death," will be released March 25, and its cover art features the Notorious B.I.G. standing...
...Europe has in part been fueled by severe economic hardship since the collapse of Soviet communism in 1991. Since that year, Russia has experienced a 70 percent rise in TB cases and a 90 percent increase in TB deaths. While Western Europe currently lies on the front of a bitter outbreak the disease, WHO officials warn that in the age of jet travel, the entire world may be at risk. "Everyone who breathes air, from Wall Street to the Great Wall of China, needs to worry about this risk," a WHO official said. To prevent this scenario, the organization made...
...first-years sell their souls and senior year early on to honors-only majors like history and literature or social studies when they declare their concentration. Other (wiser?) first-years hedge their bets and major in English, economics or government, where they can keep their options open to the bitter end, and still graduate if they drop their theses at the last minute...
...cynical viewer into the play. In his battered black suit, derby hat and worn-out umbrella, Burt-Kinderman's Jacques seems a cross between Charlie Chaplin and one of Beckett's existentially confused wanderers from Waiting for Godot. Her razor-sharp portrayal electrifies the play. Deftly handling Jacques's bitter one-liners, she also does an unusually effective job with the play's famous "Seven Ages of Man" monologue...