Word: bitters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...face to an audience that still half-expects a dance of death silhouetted across a mountain-top at the end of a talky black and white film. But if you see the film without preconceptions or a burning need to analyze, and stick it out to the bitter end, The Mother and the Whore can be everything Last Tango in Paris was supposed to be and wasn't--a masterpiece about our enslavement to sex, boredom, and film, worth every one of its 215 minutes...
...said: "I know you want to get the war over ... That's all right. Have a good time in Washington, and don't go away bitter...
...camp that had been hit by Israeli planes, where he was guarded closely by armed commandos. Correspondent William Stewart, a journalistic veteran of Viet Nam and India-Pakistan combat, also visited 'Ain el Hilweh with TIME'S Abu Said. They poked through the ruins and talked with bitter but resolute Palestinians...
...life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth," says the Book of Exodus. In Sura II of the Koran the Prophet advises: "O believers, prescribed for you is retaliation touching the slain; freeman for freeman, slave for slave, female for female." Unfortunately for the Middle East, this sense of bitter, retaliatory justice persists to the present...
...cold civil war," as one Paris editor described France's fiercely contested presidential-election campaign, continued right down to a bitter end. At times, as last Sunday's election approached, the two contenders seemed more interested in hurling insults than in dealing with the issues. Socialist François Mitterrand, running with Communist backing, accused Finance Minister Valery Giscard d'Estaing of being the tool of "these princes, these dukes, these millionaires [who] have not had a new-idea in 15 years." The patrician Giscard in turn scourged his left-wing opponent for running "a violent...