Word: bitterness
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...senior peers. At first, I thought this joke--as well as the rest of my tryout speech--was incisive and insightful, allowing my fellow seniors to laugh at their faults as they celebrated their successes. But then I gave the speech, and it came out jaded and spiteful--as bitter and poorly conceived as a mixed drink at the Hong Kong. The audience might have been more amused by excerpts from a Dairy Queen menu or a rhythmic display of armpit flatulence...
...story of Elian Gonzalez will leave in its wake not just bitter excitement but also one of the more hard-to-figure court decisions of recent years. In a federal appeals panel ruling last week that no one could remove Elian from the U.S. before a May 11 hearing in the same court, the judges appeared to portend a new issue, seeming to claim an unexpected new right for six-year-olds to press their cases...
...pretty good season to be a bitter old person, which is to say, as defined by TV advertisers and the Internet economy, anyone over 27. Not only did dotcom whippersnappers get spanked by the NASDAQ, but TV's youthquake--when networks unleashed a hot-bodied army of Dawson's Creek clones to capture young audiences--triggered an avalanche of zit fatigue. The teen cop (Ryan Caulfield), the earnest young politicos (D.C.), the sexy prepsters (the never-aired Manchester Prep)--all were dead on arrival, while older-skewing dramas thrived...
...milieu of most underground comic book artists. "A lot of them spent their high school years feeling alone and alienated. I had pretty good teen years," he says, while sitting in a Manhattan restaurant, eating what he keeps referring to as "adult food" ("These greens are a little bitter"). "I was short and all, but I wasn't picked on." Now, Sacco, still boyish looking, says he has abandoned most of his belongings and left Portland, Ore., for New York City. He's sleeping on a friend's couch in Brooklyn while attempting to break into the national media...
...although my own "off-off-Broadway" production of a crucial, big game mistake won't rank with the devastation of the Webbers or Buckners of the world, I can attest to the bitter and acrid taste of that oft-bandied expression "agony of defeat...