Word: bitters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...resolved to be a director-cum- personality and so has entered the front line of media in-fighting. At its most harmless this includes the kind of toothless satire of such cultural balloons as The Sensuous Woman and Love Story. At its most petty it is a bitter parody of New York critic John Simon, who made the grievous error of disliking The Last Picture Show. (Simon has retaliated by calling Barbra Streisand "a cross between an aardvark and an albino rat surmounted by a horse...
...most traumatic event in recent French history was unquestionably, the Algerian war, which claimed the lives of 20,000 French soldiers and an estimated 1,000,000 Algerians between 1954 and 1962. French memories of the war are still bitter, but passions have recently cooled enough to permit a few uncensored examinations of a conflict that brought France perilously close to civil war. First to "bring the skeleton out of the closet," as one reviewer put it, was General Jacques Massu, whose book La Vraie Balaille d'Alger (The Real Battle of Algiers) describes in chilling detail the tortures...
...Feud. More ominously, the Gallo and Colombo gangs last week officially declared war. The two clans "went to the mattresses"-the Mob's term for consolidating forces in fortified hideouts, hauling in mattresses for a long siege and sleeping on them for the duration. It was the most bitter gang conflict in a decade, and could become the bloodiest campaign since the savage Castellammarese war* in 1930-31, when scores of Mafiosi killed off one another in the streets across the country...
...Kleindienst told the House Judiciary Committee last week, it could reopen every school desegregation case already decided. Says Passow of the President: "He's wiping out 18 years of efforts to integrate and making everyone who has worked toward desegregation look like a goddamned fool." That is a bitter view, but plainly those who believe that education must include close contact with other races are in for several years-at least-of discouragement and frustration...
...control over the home front that Roosevelt called him the assistant President. As peace approached, Byrnes became increasingly involved with foreign affairs and went to Potsdam as Harry Truman's Secretary of State. After the war his attitude toward the Russians hardened and this involved him in a bitter dispute with the more moderate members of Truman's Cabinet. Eventually Byrnes' deep conservatism reasserted itself and he fell out with both the President and the National Democratic Party. In 1950, at the age of 71, he was elected Governor of South Carolina on a segregationist platform...