Word: bitterness
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...deft mood setting and the canny vignettes of young love and adult rancor. Fernan Gomez, nearly 60 years in films, carries himself (and the film) with the dignity of a gifted gentleman who knows how to transmit joy and endure suffering. Butterfly is a savory cocktail with a bitter twist...
...aging baby boomers, that prospect looms as both bitter and sweet. While a sea change in the treatment of Alzheimer's may not occur in time for their parents, it almost certainly will for them...
...know this from the bitter experience of the Oslo accords. They were to be interim, preparatory. At the time, after the Gulf War, the P.L.O. was ostracized, exiled and broke. It was dying. Yitzhak Rabin revived it in order to produce an interlocutor for peace. But he did not go for a final agreement with Yasser Arafat. He decided to leave all the tough issues--Jerusalem, statehood, final borders, refugees--for later...
...after the launch of the interceptor, its final rocket stage refused to separate from the kill vehicle, dooming the mission. AIR FORCE LIEUT. GENERAL RON KADISH, who runs the military's missile-defense programs, monitored the test from inside a secure Pentagon conference room. His nervous energy soured into bitter disappointment as he watched the $100 million test fall apart despite measures to ensure a hit. "What's going on!" he barked into a phone. He grimaced. "A quality problem--mistake of some sort." Other Pentagon officials pledged to work even harder to make the next test...
...Final Countdown - Europe 2. Blowing In the Wind - Bob Dylan 3. Unchained Melody - Everly Brothers 4. Longer - Dan Fogelberg 5. Bitter Sweet Symphony - The Verve 6. Any Dream Will Do - Lloyd Webber/Rice (from "Joseph and the Technicolor Dreamcoat") 7. Zombie - The Cranberries 8. Eternal Flame - Bangles 9. Jailhouse Rock - Elvis Presley 10. The Sounds of Silence - Simon and Garfunkel...