Word: bitterness
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...bitter Kerrigan entourage and many skating observers, that's just what the judges did. Baiul's performance was not nearly as clean as her rival's; she two-footed a triple flip (a major gaffe) and simplified another jump. Critics were quick to point out that her first-place rankings each came from four East bloc countries and a German judge from the defunct Democratic Republic. Since the early 1980s, the majority of the nine judges' rankings has carried the day rather than the old system of totaling all points; if Kerrigan had been competing in 1976, when Dorothy Hamill...
...past hundred years or so, the Jews have also had to contend with such a thesis about their own modernity. If they are more secure than they have ever been, in America and (for different reasons) in Israel, it is because they repudiated that thesis, not without bitter internecine battle, and because they made themselves ready in their own self-interest for the costs of change...
...however, that Mr. Kondoleon's humor becomes wholly ironic. The comedy moves alongside the tragedy, and the tenuous relation of the two generally manages to avoid seeming bitter or sarcastic. One does not necessarily override the other Death is not funny, maybe, but Hector certainly is. And while death is surely present in the novel, we are detached from it to some extent. We are busy listening to Hector...
...alcoholism, sexism and abuse of the really codependent but superficially "O-so-happy, June Cleaver" marriages of 1950s America. Through the dialogue and manners of Blanche Dubois, we realize how easily the surface can be scraped away to reveal the truth. Typically Southern and truly deceptive, Blanche speaks her bitter grain of truth wrapped in a sugar coating of politeness...
...Kazan originally intended for the film. This is one of the few restorations made by a major film company which improves the original version. Leigh deservedly won the Best Actress Oscar for her role as Blanche. She showed Blanche's struggle to maintain her Southern politesse until the bitter, insane end. Kim Hunter as Stella won the Best Supporting Actress while Karl Malden, playing Mitchell, the naive, yet passionate love interest of Blanche, won the Best Supporting Actor award...