Word: bitters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...above the enchantment of the Irish humor hangs the shadow of the rebellion's failure. And our foreknowledge of this doom turns the humor slightly sour, adds to the ironic effect of each scene. At the end both the humor and the idealism have become bitter disillusionment...
...important question was whether Tshombe's bitter Congolese foes, the rebel forces of Christophe Gbenye, would be invited to present their case to the meeting. The Sudan, which has acted as a funnel for arms to the rebels, joined Egypt and Algeria in demanding that the rebels be heard. But when the vote was taken, the rebels were rejected, suggesting that a growing number of delegations felt that, whatever their personal antipathy to Tshombe, there was no alternative to supporting the legitimate Tshombe regime...
Belaunde sometimes suspects that the U.S. drags its feet just a little because of his bitter wrangle with International Petroleum Co., the Standard Oil of New Jersey affiliate that operates Peru's richest oilfield on the north coast near the Ecuadorian border. Shortly after his election in 1963, Belaúnde yielded to nationalist demands and canceled I.P.C.'s 39-year-old concession. He has yet to reach a settlement. Peru's anti-Yanquis demand outright expropriation. Belaúnde's better sense tells him that the government could not run the field profitably. "Around here...
...directors never die-they just become verbose. Take Josef von Sternberg, for example: today he is remembered only as the man who discovered Marlene Dietrich. Clearly there was nothing he could do but write a bitter book and generously distribute the blame...
...account of Dietrich and the Svengali-Trilby relationship that produced The Blue Angel, Shanghai Express and The Devil Is a Woman is pitiably bitter. While other stars complained of Sternberg's cruel direction, Marlene loyally praised the very hardships he put her through, as when he made her walk barefoot across the blazing desert while filming Morocco with Gary Cooper. But to Sternberg this was no more than a deliberate plot designed by Dietrich to gain public admiration for herself and to shower abuse on him. He recognizes some talent in her, chiefly an ability to follow direction...