Word: bitterness
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...years have not been kind to Ramis and his stellar career hits rock bottom with his latest film,“The Ice Harvest.” Despite Ramis’ attempts to create visually intriguing scenes, John Cusack’s (“High Fidelity”) bitter wit, and Oliver Platt’s (TV’s “The West Wing”) slapstick drollery, nothing can save the hackneyed storyline of this too-dark comedy. Based on the novel by Scott Phillips and adapted for the screen by Richard Russo...
...When Saddam Hussein was in power, he suppressed most resistance through sheer force and an aggressive, overwhelming response to any uprising. I'm sure that the Kurds and the Shi'ite majority, with the support of the U.S., could deal with the Fallujah insurgents. Sometimes the antidote is a bitter pill to swallow. David Hicks Duluth, Georgia, U.S. God and Science While I applaud Nobel-prizewinning physicist Eric Cornell's evenhanded call for moderation in the intelligent-design debate [Nov. 14], I long to see an article that examines the causality for the controversy and suggests how it might...
Lewis and others brought a resolution to the board recognizing the diversity of HRC member opinions about the FMA, but it was unceremoniously voted down. In the end, the club’s official position was in support of the FMA, leaving a number of members with a bitter taste in their mouths...
...field toward Siedlecki, his longtime friend. Though he was doubtless pleased with the victory, he couldn’t help but think of the immense pressure that Siedlecki was under from dissatisfied Yale alums. Murphy knew that those cries would only grow in the wake of the most recent bitter Bulldog defeat, admitting afterward that “there [was] no way Yale deserved to lose this game...
...Whether he was both of these characters, or neither, Cash brought the outlaw presence to pop music. The authenticity in his quavering baritone attested to a life of bitter experience. In those ballads of hard traveling, careless love and felonious assault, the words he sang were places he'd been, got hurt in and learned from. That startling line in ?Folsom Prison Blues? - ?I shot a man in Reno, just to watch him die? - is followed by ?When I hear that whistle blowin', I hang my head and cry.? First the bad-man boast, then the sinner's remorse...