Word: bitterness
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...arrival of bitter cold and the first Nor'easter of the year marks the true beginning of winter for most New Englanders...
...conventions of all three films are exposed. They mean to shock and then inspire, with the revelation that good people can triumph. They amount to a tiny ray of Hollywood sunshine in the storm of 20th century chaos. While seeming to look clearly at the world, they ignore the bitter, deprived existences of most people who live in it: in Ukraine or Ireland or Vietnam, or in the death camp of an AIDS ward...
...Milwaukee Yellow Pages lists more than 30 taxidermists -- attitudes are shifting. Wisconsin passed a mandatory criminal background check on handgun buyers in 1991, and Attorney General James Doyle boasts that more than 560 convicted felons have already been foiled from legally purchasing a weapon. In 1991, after a bitter debate, Milwaukee approved a seven-day waiting period to purchase handguns, and last month the city council set aside $50,000 for a gun buyback program proposed by Police Chief Philip Arreola, whose officers visit schools to hand out gun- safety comic books featuring Molly Magnum and Shorty Shotgun...
...grants Yeltsin the right to disband the parliament if it fails to accept his nominee for Prime Minister for the third time or attempts to force a vote of confidence twice in three months. The post of Vice President has been abolished, owing to Yeltsin's bitter experience with his own running mate turned rebel, Alexander Rutskoi. If the President becomes disabled, power temporarily passes to his Prime Minister...
...dumps puts matters too mildly. Give or take the late Dr. Seuss, Sendak is by far our most talented artist and writer for children (Where the Wild Things Are, In the Night Kitchen). His new book is about homeless children, and it matches the world's madness with the bitter fantasies of art. We see a frightening jumble of hungry, half-naked street kids, voracious rats, a huge cat-faced moon. Two white urchins discover a brown boy barely old enough to walk. Jingly verse that recalls The Threepenny Opera teeters on murder: "Come says Jack let's knock...