Word: bitters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Dressed in a flowered shirt and striped bell-bottoms, Rubin looks very different from the bearded, long-haired Yippie who took the stand as a defendant in the 1968 "Chicago Seven" trials. He says he is now bitter about the hostility he feels from his former followers...
...outlying states, and Dimka soon realized that he was finished. Hands in pockets, he jauntily said, "Excuse me," walked out of the Lagos radio station, and has not turned up since. Meanwhile, loyalist tanks rolled up to Dodan barracks and routed the remaining rebels in a brief but bitter firefight. Seven hours after it started, the coup was over...
...mean to be cruel to the Beales, al though they are. The movie has some slender justification as a piece of psychological reporting, about the ways two people rely on each other and torture each other. But all we see - perhaps all anyone could ever see - are the bitter ness and the desperation, not how and why they began. Without the powers of art to enrich and transform, Grey Gardens remains an aimless act of ruptured privacy and an exploitation...
...surprising that he focuses a great deal of his attention on women. "I like women," he writes. "It is only wives I am in trouble with." But there is little evidence that Steinbeck especially appreciated the company and conversation of women. In one bitter moment, he told a friend who was considering marriage, "I have thought that men and women should never come together except in bed. There is the only place where their natural hatred of each other is not so apparent." After his second divorce, he despaired of ever achieving a good marriage and went on a sexual...
...last fall, however, many faculty members had refused to work with President Parker, charging that she was uncommunicative and aloof. They were particularly aroused by a Parker report on the future of the college that, among other recommendations, called for an end to the tenure system at Bennington. Still bitter about the dispute, Gail Parker says: "I quit because it wasn't worth it. I'm not willing to be abused unless I'm damned sure there will be some real gain." Iseman's tenure will also be short. He plans to leave in June...