Word: bitterness
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...bitter irony, thousands of tons of food, clothes and medicine are stockpiled about 100 miles away, across the border in Uzbekistan. But that country's bureaucracy, which fears an influx of refugees and Islamic radicals, has managed to keep all but a few hundred tons from moving into Afghanistan. Aid that did get across, either from Uzbekistan or from Turkmenistan to the west, had to go through a gauntlet before it helped those who needed it most. Agencies have to pay a "tax" to a military commander around every mountain pass. Pilfering is rife; Alliance soldiers and local aid workers...
...chapters a brutal lesson. The war against terrorism, they like to say, is a new form of war. But at Qala-i-Jangi, as the blood of horses and dead young men snaked into the dust, the oldest form of war imaginable seemed to have made a cruel and bitter return...
However, the show follows its uneven opener with one of its better vignettes, “Bitter Sauce.” In “Sauce,” Rengin and Herman create an excellent contrast between abusiveness and meekness. Although predictable, Rengin’s double betrayal makes for an entertaining spectacle as she sways drunkenly across the stage and alternately sputters expressions of love and despair...
...entered the Tokyo subway and pierced plastic packs of liquefied sarin gas with their umbrella tips, leaving 12 people dead and thousands injured. Only two months before, more than 5,000 people were killed by an earthquake that shook the western port city of Kobe. "Some strange malaise, some bitter aftertaste lingers on," writes novelist Haruki Murakami in his account of the times, Underground: The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche. "We crane our necks and look around us, as if to ask: where did all that come from...
...Yanobe's bubble-blowing Astro Boy wall sculpture, Myeong-eun Shin's floor of 400 plastic pink poodles, and Satoshi Hirose's room of 5,000 fragrant lemons seem to celebrate Japan's ongoing culture of kawaii (cute). But like a sugar-coated almond, "NEO-TOKYO" leaves a slightly bitter aftertaste...