Word: bitters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...closing of even a single hospital sparks a bitter political fight. The hospitals not only provide health care but are also a source of jobs, and they are overstaffed with doctors and other employees. Dr. John Holloman, $65,000-a-year director of the city's Health and Hospitals Corporation, has resisted cutbacks; he even quashed a report on possible economies that was prepared by his own staff. A close observer of city affairs notes hyperbolically: "Some of the neighbors, in league with the more radical doctors, will riot, kill and burn to keep the hospital from being closed...
...Thurber figure dominates nearly all of the fifteen sketches which comprise the show. This character's vacillation from cynical to maudlin and from macho to castrated propels the show's bitter but sometimes precious humor. The play is full of disturbed men who can't decide what role to play, who can't tell, as Thurber never could, whether they're coming or going. A would-be wife murderer cowers when she threatens him with a monkey wrench. Walter Mitty fantasizes that he is Bogart, Patton, and Dr. Christian Barnard, but his wife can't seem to take him seriously...
Saturday afternoon, McGill University students invaded Cambridge for a friendly game of rugby but left early Sunday evening carrying with them a memory of bitter bloodshed. Bringing with them female enthusiasts, cheerleaders, and even a handfull of bagpipers, they departed dear Harvard shocked, bewildered, but nonetheless, completely overwhelmed...
Americans are in a bitter and fearful mood. The chief reason seems to be inflation, which has so eroded confidence in President Ford that less than half of those polled consider him acceptable as the next President. A sizable majority of Americans (58%) now believe that there is no end to inflation in sight. About two out of three people express doubts about the country's future prosperity...
...extraordinary interest, preceding Duchamp's famous Nude Descending a Staircase by two years. Like wise, the paintings Kupka made later-a series of abstract color disks rotating in space-appear to have influenced Robert Delaunay's disk paintings of 1913. At least Kupka believed so, and remained bitter about Delaunay till the end of his life. "Exhibit, why?" he demanded of a visitor to Puteaux in the '50s. "So that everyone can copy...